Report: Health Care Taking Bigger Share Of Workers’ Income, Especially In South

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December 12th, 2018

The overall cost of health insurance for employers is lower in Georgia than the national average. But the level of income here and in the rest of the South weighs on the overall health care burden, according to Bill Custer, a health insurance expert at Georgia State University.

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Workers and their families are spending a larger percentage of income on health care, especially in the South, a report says.

Average premium contributions by employees are 7 percent of median income nationally. But Georgia is among 11 states where these contributions for single and family plans amounted to 8 percent of median income or more, said the report from the Commonwealth Fund, released Friday.

Other Southern states in this grouping are Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas.

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