Survey: Individual health insurance premiums jump
The Kaiser Family Foundation says 77 percent of individual
insurance customers questioned this spring in a national survey
recently faced a premium increase. They reported an average hike of
20 percent.
But some switched plans and bought less-expensive policies, so
people who faced increases wound up paying 13 percent more on
average.
Those hikes surpass recent single-digit increases seen in
employer-sponsored health insurance, which is where most insured
Americans get coverage.
About 14 million people under age 65 receive health insurance
through the individual market.