Employer-Provided Health Insurance Premiums for Family Coverage Cost About $12,298 Annually; Families Contributed About $3,394

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News In 2008, employees with family health insurance coverage paid an average annual cost of $3,394 toward the average $12,298 annual cost of a family plan. Employees with plans covering themselves and one other person paid $2,303 toward the average $8,535 cost of employee-plus-one plans. Employees with single health insurance coverage paid an average of $882 toward the premium toward the average $4,386 cost of single coverage. Almost 20 million of the 62.5 million workers enrolled in employer-based insurance in 2008 had family . . .