Kaiser survey says family health plan could cost $30,083 per year by 2019.
“The most important healthcare document released this week was not Sen. Max Baucus’s Healthy Future Act. It was the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2009 Employer Benefits Survey.” The survey, “which polls employers about health benefits to assemble a detailed look at the actual cost of healthcare, fits it squarely in our pocketbooks. The truth is we all pay, and much more than we recognize, for healthcare.” According to Kaiser, “the average healthcare coverage for the average family now costs $13,375.” Over the past decade, “premiums have increased by 138 percent.
