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That’s the average premium increase for an employer-sponsored health plan to cover a family this year. It’s even higher for workers at small companies, according to the KFF annual survey of employer health benefits.
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John writes about the politics of health care, and he is the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. You can reach John on Signal at John_Wilkerson.07.
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