Employee-benefits consultant Aon Hewitt is forecasting a 6.9 percent increase in overall annual premium costs in next year, with the average total premium cost per local employee reaching $10,777. That includes both the employer’s and employee’s share.
It’s the largest local increase in seven years, up from the 3.9 percent increase this year and 4.9 percent increase last year, according to the annual survey.
Nationwide, employees’ share of health-care costs — including their out-of-pocket costs — is expected to be $4,969 in 2014, up nearly 150 percent from a decade earlier.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/11/03/2014-insurance-costs-rising-more.html
