Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Growing Bite of Health Insurance

The cost of family coverage for those who get health insurance through their jobs rose more than 10 times as fast as income from 2001 to 2005. University of Minnesota researchers, using federal data, found that premiums for family coverage rose from $1,921 to $2,585, or 34.6 percent, during that period. Median income for those families rose from $40,818 to $42,068 -- 3.1 percent.

SOURCE: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation