{"id":2433,"date":"2016-04-01T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:52:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:52:47","slug":"workers-desire-grows-for-wage-increases-over-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"Workers\u2019 Desire Grows For Wage Increases Over Health Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>More wages, less health insurance. In a recent survey, one in five people with employer-based coverage said they would opt for fewer health benefits if they could get a bump in their wages. That\u2019s double the percentage who said they would make that choice in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do these surveys all the time, and it\u2019s rare where you see things change that quickly,\u201d said Paul Fronstin, director of the health research and education program at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, which conducted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebri.org\/publications\/notes\/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&amp;content_id=3334\" target=\"_blank\">the survey<\/a> of 1,500 workers with Greenwald &amp; Associates. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/workers-desire-grows-for-wage-increases-over-health-benefits\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=27947636&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9KQcM-OF8ZR8LxBttGQevt86E8GJOZ-Y_uJWUfY7tLG1DhA2m0NTWz-P1qPkgpA5umsDEnm_J_T2EHNfLqQab-0fRLwA&amp;_hsmi=27947636\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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