We're in the midst of a rare slowdown in the growth of health spending. That slowdown just hit the employer health insurance market. On Wednesday, the Kaiser Family Foundation published its annual survey on the health plans that employers are offering their workers. It's large and comprehensive and generally regarded as the most reliable measure of what's happening in the employer market. The big finding is that the growth in health insurance premiums was only 3 percent between 2013 and 2014. That's tied for the lowest rate of increase since Kaiser started measuring (this is the 16th year of the survey).
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