Average Family Premiums For Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Rose 3% To $18,764 In 2017

The average family premium for employer-sponsored health insurance rose 3% to $18,764 in 2017. The average single-coverage premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose 4% to $6,690 in 2017.

These findings were reported in “Health Benefits In 2017: Stable Coverage, Workers Faced Considerable Variation In Costs” by Gary Claxton, Matthew Rae, Michelle Long, Anthony Damico, Heidi Whitmore, and Gregory Foster. The researchers used survey collected by National Research, LLC that was gathered between January 2017 and June 2013 for the nineteenth annual Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research and Educational Trust (Kaiser HRET) Employer Health . . .