Higher Paid Workers Begin To Bear Higher Health Insurance Costs

More employers are requiring higher-paid employees to make greater premium contributions toward their health care plans therby tying employee contribution to wages.

With health care costs increasing more and more, an increasing number of employers are adopting a system to pass on the bulk of those costs to workers in higher salary brackets and offering some relief to workers who make less money.

Employees continue to see what they pay toward health care go up as companies ask them to contribute more to premiums and deductibles. But now, as people enroll in health plans for the coming year, the sticker shock is more jolting than ever because so many companies are passing on to their workers most, if not all, of the higher costs.

A worker’s share of a family policy is approaching $4,000 a year on average, and is most certainly going to keep rising through the next few years. For lower-salaried workers, those costs have only compounded their struggle in a brutal economy.
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