According to proceeds of the 2003 A...

According to proceeds of the 2003 Annual Employer Health Benefits contemplate private health insurance premiums increased 139 percent between spring 2002 and spring 2003 representing the third consecutive year of double-digit increases and the seventh straight year of increases. Also, for the inferior consecutive year, premium increases surpassed the rate of inflation through more than 10 percentage points. The overlook which was released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, was managemented between January and May 2003 and included 2808 randomly excellented public and private firms with an employee range of three to 300000 Annual premium averages were $3383 for single coverage and $9068 for family coverage, with employer paying 73 percent and employee paying 27 percent upon average. The study noted that principally employers were passing on the higher preciousnesss to their employees rather than dropping coverage. The close attention is available online at www.kff.org/content/2003/3369.

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