Iowa employers face steep health insurance price increases, but keep offering benefits

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Des Moines Register: Iowa employers, who provide health insurance to more than half of all Iowans, aren’t dropping the benefit, despite facing a series of steep premium increases, a new study shows. On average, Iowa employers faced premium increases of 8.4 percent for 2018, according to the new survey by consultant David P. Lind. Iowa employers with fewer than 50 employees faced increases of more than 12 percent. But none of the 1,001 Iowa employers who participated in Lind’s annual survey reported they had quit offering coverage.