According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average cost of family health insurance offered by companies is now a whopping $20,576 a year, or $1,714.66 a month. Employers paid for 71% of that cost on average.
Meanwhile, the average premium for single workers was $7,188 a year, or $599 a month. Employers covered 83% of that cost on average.
The KFF surveyed over 2,000 companies.
If they had asked us what we paid, we would have brought up the average because our health insurance cost is jumping by 7% to $23,131.38 a year, or $1,927.64 a month for a family of three! Previously, we were paying “only” $21,788.88 a year, or $1,815.74 a month.
With one child we have a PPO Platinum plan with a $250/$500 deductible (single/family), a $3,200/$6,400 out-of-pocket max (single/family) and 80% co-pay insurance.
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Recently, one of my tenants had his car “broken into” while it was parallel parked outside the house. The robber took his new set of golf clubs worth ~$3,000. I put “broken into” in quotes because no window was smashed. He apparently left his car unlocked.
I’ve always trusted my insurance company, which I’ll call TRICKY DICK in this article, to do the right thing. After all, I’ve been a client of theirs for 22 years. They’ve benefited from my growth in assets and I now have auto insurance, homeowner’s insurance, valuable personal property insurance and an umbrella policy with them. Furthermore, I’ve got a relatively large chunk of change in CDs deposited with them as well.
One of the most important insurance policies I have is my 20 year, $1 million term life insurance policy. I took it out on my 35th birthday because before then, I had life insurance through my employer based on 4X my base salary. I left Corporate America in 2012 at the age of 34 and now have to pay for all of my own insurance. Cherish your work benefits folks!
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