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Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage reached $19,616 this year, up 5% from last year, with workers on average paying $5,547 toward the cost of their coverage. The average deductible among covered workers in a plan with a general annual deductible is $1,573 for single coverage. Fifty-six percent of small firms and 98% of large firms offer health benefits to at least some of their workers, with an overall offer rate of 57%.
Source 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Source June 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
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Source Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – Late Summer 2018: The Election, Pre-Existing Conditions, and Surprises on Medical Bills
The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll continues to find pre-existing conditions as a widespread concern with most Americans saying it is very important that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing conditions remain law. With health care costs continuing to be a major topic in the 2018 campaigns, the poll looks at the public’s experiences with unexpected medical bills and finds that this tops a list of possible problems people could face.…
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Source KFF analysis of a five percent sample of Medicare prescription drug event claims from the CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse, 2007-2016.
Source KFF analysis based on CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 2013 Cost and Use file and The Urban Institute's DYNASIM3
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