Sunday, October 22, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Dear John, ICYMI, we concluded our inaugural season of our health equity podcast, Research and Justice For All. On the final episode, Rashad Burgess of Gilead Sciences joined the show to discuss how private sector companies can advance health equity goals.
KFF documents that the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health insurance coverage was $23,968 in 2023, a 7 percent increase from 2022.
KFF also finds that both single and family premiums increased faster in 2023 than in 2022, and that on average, covered workers contributed 17 percent and 29 percent of the cost of single and family coverage, respectively.
KFF adds that among surveyed firms with fifty or more workers, “57 percent believed that their employees had a high or moderate level of concern about the affordability of cost sharing in their health plans.”
The article concludes with a discussion about the implications of the Dobbs v Jackson decision for employer-sponsored coverage of abortion and related services.
KFF suggests that employers will need to continually monitor the legal landscape and assess their coverage as legal restrictions shape the availability of services.
Alan Weil interviews Chidinma Ibe of Johns Hopkins University on her recent Health Affairs paper, which
provides a closer understanding of the value of community health workers' (CHW) voices, social risk factors, and how structural racism shapes CHWs' approach to intervention delivery in structurally vulnerable communities.
Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Michael Gerber discuss labor relations and news out of California, providing an update on the Kaiser Permanente workforce strike and how California will raise its minimum wage for health care workers to $25 an hour. So does California, so does the US?
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