Two new sets of data released this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Education Trust illustrate a promising trend in health care costs and outcomes in Virginia.
Kaiser and the Health Research and Education Trust released the results of a survey Wednesday that found that nationally, the average premiums for families with employer-sponsored health plans grew 3.4 percent in 2016.
The findings were consistent with a trend of lower-than-usual average increases in premiums since 2010, when the Affordable Care Act was enacted. In the 2000s, premiums rose sometimes by as much as 9.5 percent on average, according to a Department of Health and Human Services — HHS — press release.
