Business Insurance
» Business Insurance, Volume 2, Issue 7, 2002
If respondent's business either purchases insurance OR is self-insured and purchases insurance AND respondent identifies employee health insurance premiums rising faster than all others.
How have you responded to the increase in insurance to cover (the respondent's most rapidly rising per unit insurance premium)? Did you or do you plan to:?
5F. (response to premium increases) Increase employee cost-share.
Response | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yes | 33 | ||
2 | No | 59 | ||
3 | DK/Refuse | 8 | ||
Total (%) | 100 | |||
N | 581 |
Notes: Thirty-three (33) percent of small employers who purchase business insurance responded to their largest premium increase, in this case health insurance, by increasing employee cost share (Q#5F).