• Small Business Health Insurance🔍
• Employers' health care costs rise🔍
• Offering health insurance is important to small business owners🔍
• Get ready for health insurance premiums to be 'highest in decades'🔍
• The Burden of Health Insurance Premiums on Small Business🔍
• Employers Project 8%|9% Rise in Health Care Costs for 2025🔍
• Health|care costs hit post|pandemic high. Open enrollment moves ...🔍
• ACA Drove Record Coverage Gains for Small|Business and Self ...🔍

Small Business Health Insurance: What to Expect in 2025

The news for small business health insurance in 2025 isn't rosy, but there is a bright light — a pre-tax, fixed benefit called ICHRA ...

Survey: Employers expect third year of high health cost growth in 2025

Employers expect health benefit cost per employee to rise 5.8% in 2025 (after making any changes to current plans). Change in total health ...

Employers' health care costs rise, but many hesitate to cut benefits

A lot of small businesses seem hesitant to cut benefits, and 49% told the National Federation of Independent Business that they just took a hit ...

Offering health insurance is important to small business owners, but ...

Not only does offering health insurance increase employee retention and drive down costs related to employee turnover, but more than 1-in-3 ...

Get ready for health insurance premiums to be 'highest in decades'

Health-care premiums in workplace benefits plans are expected to rise 7% to 8%, on average, for 2025. Many workers will pay more next year ...

The Burden of Health Insurance Premiums on Small Business

For small businesses that provide health insurance benefits, insurance premiums may be a material portion of their cost of conducting business.

Employers Project 8%-9% Rise in Health Care Costs for 2025 - SHRM

The average cost of employer-sponsored health care coverage in the U.S. is expected to increase by 9% in 2025, surpassing $16,000 per employee, according to an ...

Health-care costs hit post-pandemic high. Open enrollment moves ...

The cost per employee is expected to jump 5.8% on average in 2025, marking the third consecutive year of health benefit cost increases above 5%, ...

ACA Drove Record Coverage Gains for Small-Business and Self ...

Millions of small-business and self-employed workers gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Their uninsured rates reached ...

2023 Small Business Health Insurance Report: Trends and ...

Small business owners face challenges in providing health benefits for their employees, with limited options and premiums that never seem to ...

New Research On Small Businesses Offering Health Insurance - NFIB

Ninety-eight percent of small businesses offering health insurance are concerned that healthcare costs will become unsustainable for them within the next 5-10 ...

Small Business Health Care Tax Credit and the SHOP Marketplace

Also, since the amount of the health insurance premium payments is more than the total credit, eligible small businesses can still claim a ...

Employer healthcare costs projected to rise 9% in 2025: Aon

This year, employer insurance costs grew 6.4% compared to 2023, while average expenses per employee rose to more than $14,800. Inflation and the ...

Health Insurance Options for Small Businesses and Startups - Sequoia

Employers with 50 to 499 employees expect health benefit costs to increase 9% in 2025. That puts companies in a tough spot since they must ...

Health insurance cost climbing: Why plan prices are higher

Consumers will see higher prices in the coming weeks when their employers start signups for 2025 health insurance plans. That means larger ...

Employers expect benefit costs to rise 5% for third straight year

Because the cost of healthcare coverage is typically shared between the employer and employee, managing cost is also important to minimize ...

A new approach to employer health care? Give workers ... - NPR

As for employees, “from a cost standpoint, people tend to be pretty happy with it, and people really like having a choice of plans,” she said.

WSJ: 42% of small businesses surveyed facing health insurance ...

“Roughly half of small business owners said health insurance costs increased by 10% or more this year, according to a survey of about 800 ...

The Small Business Health Care Tax Credit | HealthCare.gov

You may qualify for the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit that could be worth up to 50% of the costs you pay for your employees' premiums (35% for non- ...

Health benefit cost expected to rise 5.4% in 2024 - Mercer.com

US employers expect total health benefit cost per employee to rise 5.4% on average in 2024, even after they make changes to their plans to slow cost growth.