As Health Care Costs Rise, Workers At Low-Wage Firms May Pay A Larger Share

Health insurance premiums and deductibles for job-based coverage edged upward in 2019, surpassing increases in both wages and inflation, according to an annual employer survey of more than 2,000 employers released Wednesday. But the results were uneven, and many workers least able to afford it were confronted with higher-than-average costs. People at companies with large numbers of lower-wage employees faced bigger deductibles for single coverage and were asked to pony up a larger share of their incomes to pay premiums than those at firms with fewer people with low earnings, according to the  annual employer health benefits survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.) The survey defined companies with many lower-wage workers as those with

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