Paying the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums Are Eating Up Middle-Class Incomes (state, federal)

[Art123]

This is what the "free market" will do for you over the next 10 years:

The rapid rise in health insurance premiums has severely strained U.S. families and employers in recent years. This analysis of federal data finds that if premiums for employer-sponsored insurance grow in each state at the projected national rate of increase, then the average premium for family coverage would rise from $12,298 (the 2008 average) to $23,842 by 2020—a 94 percent increase.

Paying the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums Are Eating Up Middle-Class Incomes--State Health Insurance Premium Trends and the Potential of National Reform - The Commonwealth Fund

[PurpleLove08]

Yikes.

I'm sure if people took better care of themselves, that would surely slow the rise of costs.
Employers should reward employees who are in good health with bonuses.