Health care costs for employees are 130 percent higher than 10 years ago

Health insurance for small business health care costs

Workers are seeing tremendously higher expenses for their insurance plans when compared to a decade ago. According to a recent data analysis that was conducted by Aon Hewitt, employees working for large and medium sized companies in 2015 were paying an average annual $4,700 in health care costs for their plans. Comparatively, back in 2005, the amount being paid by employees with these health plans was $2,001. Mike Morrow, the senior vice president of Aon Hewitt explained that companies are currently looking for ways to help to keep their costs…

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More people in Colorado are finding it difficult to pay for their health insurance

Colorado Health Insurance

More people have insurance coverage, but fewer people can afford their policies The number of people in Colorado with health insurance has been growing steadily, but so too is the number of people that cannot afford their coverage. During the state’s annual Health Summit, Jeff Bontrager, direct of research on coverage and accessibility with the Colorado Health Institute, noted that insurance premiums are becoming a major problem for consumers. This is becoming a troubling trend that many other states across the country are also experiencing. Affordable Care Act has lead…

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Mergers among health insurance companies could drive rates skyward

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The American Medical Association has said that the reduction in competition will raise rates. The American Medical Association (AMA) has recently released the results of a study that claims that most health plan markets in the United States are currently led by a small number of insurance companies that may become even fewer with the current trend of mergers and acquisitions. The organization representing doctors and hospitals is criticizing the impact of this market shrinking. The reason is that they feel that if the current intentions of insurance companies to…

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New Jersey residents are finding it hard to pay for health insurance

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Report highlights the good news and bad news for those purchasing coverage through exchanges A recent report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows that enrollments in health insurance exchanges throughout the country remained stable during the last open enrollment period. In New Jersey, however, this could be a double-edged sword. While more people in the state have been able to acquire insurance coverage through the state’s exchange, fewer people are able to keep up with the pace at which insurance premiums are growing. New Jersey exchange continues…

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D.C. health insurance exchange will be losing some options in 2016

Health Care Reform insurance exchange

Residents of Washington D.C. won’t have as much competition on the marketplace, next year. People who live in Washington D.C. will be finding that when they look over their health insurance exchange, next year, to comparison shop for plans, they won’t have quite as many options as they saw this year. There will actually be only one carrier from which to choose, which will considerably change the playing field. Because of the plummeting competition over the insurance exchange in D.C., many of the residents who will be using it will…

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