New Jersey Businesses See Sharp Increase in Family Health-Insurance Premiums

September 1, 2015

Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Director Joel Cantor offered a possible explanation for why the increase in employer-covered workers is occurring: Workers are choosing to accept employer coverage that they may have turned down previously, because they were concerned with the ACA mandate that every American have health insurance or pay a penalty.

NJ Spotlight, September 1

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