The average price of employer-sponsored family coverage nearly doubled between 2002 and 2012, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin figures that the premium tax will add 3 percent to the cost of family coverage over the next decade.
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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.
They will lack access to affordable employer-based family coverage and still be locked out of tax credits to help them buy coverage for their kids in the marketplaces, or exchanges, being established in every state.
Lance receives family health coverage that is free except for co-pays, the state Department of Treasury confirmed Friday.
The family had coverage through the husband's employer, but he lost his job.
The average monthly Cobra bill for family health coverage has surged to 83% of the average monthly unemployment-insurance check, up from about 61% in 2001, according to Families USA, a nonprofit group focusing on health-care issues.
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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Number of family members getting coverage.
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For instance, the widely praised and popular TV show "Modern Family" gets lavish coverage in Wikipedia, but doesn't make the cut in Britannica.
So if an employer provided employee-only coverage deemed affordable by the government, then his family would not be eligible to purchase subsidized coverage through the exchanges.
After his shift ended, Fadl returned home and watched the television coverage with his family.
This includes expanding coverage and establishing family and medical leave insurance to make leave affordable.
But that young, healthy, low-income family that buys their own coverage and used to be able to add a child to their policy for a song?
The employee uses part of the money to purchase high-deductible, catastrophic coverage for his family and the balance to cover co-pays, deductibles and other out-of-pocket medical expenses.
She also mentioned not liking some of the press coverage she and her family have endured.
"The family really struggled to get any coverage whatsoever, " says Wilson.
Thus, an individual buying health insurance for his family thinking he can afford the coverage might be forced to cancel it within a few months because of premium increases.
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Ms Kirkbride said until the row blew up it had not occurred to her she had done anything wrong but said she wanted the Conservatives to have a "great result" at the next election and had to take into account "the effects on my family" of all the media coverage.
As a result, when a young family that has to buy its own coverage adds a child or two to their policy, they usually find the additional coverage cheap when compared to the cost of premiums for adults.
But E, the home of the Kardashian family cat fights, is not showing their coverage of the wedding until October 8 and 9 in a two-part special.
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In a concerted effort to raise awareness with legislators, key trade associations such as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the Council for Affordable Health Coverage, and the American Academy of Family Physicians launched Prescriptions for a Healthy America.
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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.
If that father maintains HIPAA-qualified coverage, there are health insurance options available to the family, even if the father decides to become self-employed.
She has maintained her innocence, and the case has drawn widespread media coverage and attention from U.S. lawmakers as family members push for her freedom.
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Media coverage of Mr. Santos, member of the founding family of El Tiempo, Colombia's leading newspaper, is consistently meager, in part attributable to poor handling of the press by the campaign.
Already, for example, the law bans lifetime caps on coverage, limits out-of-pocket expenses, and requires family plans to cover children until they turn 26.
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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.
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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