Health coverage is getting more expensive for employees and employers alike

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Employers face a brutal increase in health-insurance premiums for 2023

in a competitive labor market and in some instances, absorbing rising costs of coverage instead of passing them on to workers.of 1,200 small businesses found that nearly half of them have increased the cost of their goods or services to offset rising costs of health care. Four in 10 businesses surveyed stopped offering health insurance altogether.in the coming years, putting added pressure on employers to offer competitive benefits packages.

Employer-sponsored plans have seen increased demand for mental health services, and 44% of companies surveyed with 200 or more employees offered mental health or self-care apps as benefits, accompanying research inCovered workers are picking up a portion of the cost when they visit in-network physicians: Average copayments were $27 for primary care and $44 for specialty care, and there was even more cost-sharing for hospital admissions or outpatient procedures.

A large majority of firms with 50 or more employees cover some telemedicine in their largest health plan."Premium increases may be even higher than the 3–4 percentage points that we have seen in recent years," the

 

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Now imagine being self employed and really getting hosed by insurers.

God that number is staggering and insane.

Compared with ca. $4000/year for family coverage, no pre-existing conditions, no deductible and no copay - in Germany, where 50% of total premium is payed by employer and 50% by the employee. But wait - that’s communism, we don’t want that.

They just released our open enrollment paperwork. 50% increase per paycheck for all of the plans that are offered for 2023.

As long as there are profits to be made, it’s not health “care” it’s health business. Progits iver people. The US is the only industrialized country in the world to tolerate this nonsense. **sickening**

you mean employees

and insurers are reporting record quarterly profits every quarter now.

Edward Dowd warned last year about the large increase in deaths in the 18-64 year olds after the vax rollout. I'm not surprised that rates are increasing. These insurance companies have a lot of money to recoup.

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