System meltdown: employer-sponsored health insurance
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Employer-sponsored health insurance covers 165.6 million Americans. It’s the default. For lots of workers, it’s a key reason to accept a job offer, or to stay in a job.
But that system is slowly imploding. As premiums have grown explosively — the average employer plan now prices out at $27,000 for family coverage &mdash…
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