However, you could face potentially higher premiums as a result, says Phil Lebherz, executive director of the Foundation for Health Coverage Education.

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But many different models can rise from a foundation of universal (or near-universal) coverage.

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We'll note that the Gates Foundation also contributes to NPR's global health coverage.

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Several years ago, a former colleague, Karen Pollitz (a researcher at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute) and others, did a study for the Kaiser Family Foundation where they constructed seven hypothetical applicants for individual insurance coverage in 8 insurance markets across the country.

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The average price of employer-sponsored family coverage nearly doubled between 2002 and 2012, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Since 2001, insurance premiums have jumped 78% for family coverage, far outpacing inflation, according to research by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Washington, D.

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The individual market includes about 15 million people, and around 18% of the roughly 149 million with employer coverage were at small companies, according to 2011 figures from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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But because of the restrictions placed on premiums under Obamacare, such a simple change would require the premiums of young adults obtaining coverage through the exchanges to increase by at least eight percent, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study.

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The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a new study showing that the average annual premium for family health insurance coverage jumped about 9% this year, a much steeper rise than in previous years.

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"A number of groups--particularly biz groups that historically have not been strongly in favor of universal coverage--seem to be going that direction, " says Larry Levitt, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Washington, D.

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