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Employers, Employees Expected to See Higher Health-Insurance Premiums.
Byline: Tracy Correa
Sep. 24--Mark Tucker was procrastinating.
An employee-benefits representative with Johnsey Insurance Agency in Fresno, Tucker was staring at a 22.7 percent insurance renewal increase for one of his clients, a small business with five employees.
"I'm dreading making that call. I'm the messenger. I'm the one that gets killed," he said, certain his news would meet a cool reception.
Tucker and other insurance agents are having to deliver mostly bad news to clients as they head into the busy open-enrollment season.
Open enrollment -- which usually begins in fall -- is when businesses ask employees to select health-care coverage for the upcoming year. And, as it has been in the past few years, companies and employees are expected to pay more for coverage.
This year, health-care premiums increased 13.9 percent, according to a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research Educational Trust. It was the third consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest since 1990.
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