Newsmakers June 13-26: Employers shifting health-care costs to employees

A study produced by Seattle-based health-care analytics company Milliman Inc. last spring showed that employees’ health insurance costs rose faster than those of their employers as the employers shifted more of the burden to combat increasing premiums.

The Milliman Medical Index showed that employees’ health insurance costs rose 6 percent in 2014 compared to 5.4 percent for employers. The study also showed that it costs more than twice as much to insure the average family in 2014 compared to 10 years earlier, a figure that rose from $11,192 to…