{"id":110574,"date":"2025-10-29T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110574\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:00:09","slug":"this-open-enrollment-season-employers-are-passing-more-costs-on-to-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110574\/","title":{"rendered":"This Open Enrollment Season Employers Are Passing More Costs on to Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Americans embarking on the annual task of sifting through the health plans offered by their employers to find the one that gives them the most bang for their buck are facing a new reality: many of those options no longer feel affordable. This year, the process isn\u2019t just complex or confusing \u2014 it\u2019s  painful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The cost of health insurance for the roughly 165 million Americans under the age of 65 who receive their coverage through work is expected to increase by 6.5%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercer.com\/en-us\/insights\/us-health-news\/employers-prepare-for-the-highest-health-benefit-cost-increase-in-15-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">a recent employer survey<\/a> by Mercer. That\u2019s the biggest annual jump in 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans embarking on the annual task of sifting through the health plans offered by their employers to find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[67150,11507,424,103,397,396,61,60,1630,29293,24297,11505,18603,11510,1519,3591],"class_list":["post-110574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-beth-umland","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-labor","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-telemedicine","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-utilities","tag-view","tag-washington","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}