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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

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The topline of this study is that average annual growth in employer premiums rose faster between 2016 and 2017, by about 5% for both single and family plans. This third chart comes out of the book, built from data from the S tress in America survey annually conducted by the American Psychological Association. This new year is a U.S.

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The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and AARP in Women’s History Month

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McKinsey and team have considered data from U-Wash’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on the global burden of disease, coupled with OECD data on retirement ages — for the latter, finding that the average pension age for women in 2016 was 63.7 Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S.

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Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

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Then wage growth flattened for several years, until modest increases beginning in 2016. As the patient is increasingly the payor, the financial experience is embedded into the patient experience, too. households. But the gap between benefits and pay remains even during America’s current positive macroeconomy.