Consumer-Driven Health Care: What Is It, and What Does It Mean for Employees and Employers?
"The cost to employers of providing health insurance to their employees has been rising for decades.1 Estimates from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) indicate that the average cost for the private employer to provide health care insurance has risen from $1.03 per hour worked in March 1999 to $2.00 per hour worked in March 2009, a change from 5.4 percent to 7.3 percent of total compensation..."