The America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health-benefit providers, pegged the average premium cost at
$2,268 for a single person, and $4,424 for a family of three.


The numbers are enough to scare you sick.

Some 60% of companies now offer health benefits, down from 69% in 2000, according to the 2007 annual health benefits survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Small businesses are even less generous: Just 45% of companies with three to nine workers offer health benefits. Total number of uninsured Americans: roughly 47 million, or 16% of the U.S. population.[...]

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