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Health Insurance Costs Growing at Half the Rate of Last Year

Health Insurance Costs Growing at Half the Rate of Last Year

The average cost for a family plan obtained through an employer jumped this year to $15,745 from $15,073 in 2011, when premiums rose 9.5 percent according to the Kaiser Family Foundation after surveying more than 2,000 companies. Premiums, a cost typically shared by employers and employees, have doubled in the past decade, three times the gains [...]