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Employers’ Health Plan Costs Rose Sharply in 2021

January 6, 2022

Via: SHRM

The average per-employee cost of employer-sponsored health insurance jumped 6.3 percent in 2021 as employees and their families resumed care after avoiding it due to the pandemic, according to HR consultancy Mercer’s 2021 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans report, […]


News

Moderate Cost Increases Projected for Health Benefits in 2021

October 5, 2020

Via: SHRM

Employers expect a moderate health plan cost increase next year of 4.4 percent, on average, compared to this year, according to early results from HR consultancy Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans 2020. The increase, based on 1,113 employer […]


Research, Software

Affordable Care Act Wins and Losses

May 6, 2019

Via: Workforce

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, fewer people are uninsured but the number of underinsured has spiked, especially among people covered by employer-sponsored health plans, according to a recent study. An estimated 44 million people who […]