Employer-sponsored health insurance premium cost growth and its association with earnings inequality among families: JAMA Network

2024 JAN 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- About The Study: The findings of this study of U.S. families receiving employer-sponsored health insurance suggest that three decades of increasing health care premiums were likely associated with reduced annual earnings and increased earnings inequality by race and ethnicity and wage level and were meaningfully associated with wage stagnation.

Authors: Kurt Hager, Ph.D., M.S., of the UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.51644)

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