{"id":8479,"date":"2017-11-01T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8479"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:18:37","slug":"employer-premiums-on-health-care-rose-higher-this-year-than-they-have-in-the-past-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8479","title":{"rendered":"Employer Premiums on Health Care Rose Higher this Year than they have in the Past Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to the 2017 United Benefit Advisors Health Plan Survey, employer premiums on health care plans rose on the average 6.6 percent higher this year than they have in the past five years and employers are responding by continuing to pass the costs onto workers and also reducing their prescription drug coverage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2017\/10\/31\/increasing-employer-premiums-drive-more-cuts-to-in?kw=Increasing%20employer%20premiums%20drive%20more%20cuts%20to%20insurance%20benefits&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20171101&amp;src=EMC-Email_editorial&amp;pt=Daily\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7924\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 2017 United Benefit Advisors Health Plan Survey, employer premiums on health care plans rose on the average<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}