Public Employers Pay Three Times More Toward Employee Benefits Than Do Private Employers. Survey Results Show Public Shifts And Controls Health Care Costs Less Than Private Sector -- Taxpayers Hit Hardest
Indianapolis, Ind., [Dec. 18, 2013] -- United Benefit Advisor’s 2013 Health Plan Survey, the nation’s largest independent health plan benchmarking survey, reveals that while private sector employees are absorbing more costs for their own health care, facing high deductibles and huge out-of-pocket cost increases in recent years, they are also bearing more as taxpayers by assuming a higher percentage of costs for employees who work in the public sector.
