Health Care Insurance Costs

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@twoinanddone

Why aren’t private employers who provide health insurance screaming that their costs have doubled or tripled? They can’t all be passing those costs on to their employees, and if they aren’t passing them on, how are they recouping them? Lower raises and bonuses? Reduced coverage for their insurance?

I have a friend who owns a small company with about 10-12 employees. He definitely complains that health insurance is his biggest expenditure after salaries – the amount the company has to pay is absurd. But he says that he can’t pass the costs along to his employees, because he knows they can’t afford it.

I don’t know any specifics of how much he pays or for what kind of insurance specifically – but I get the sense no one is winning except health insurance companies.