Report Abuse. Probably not. I have blue cross/blue shield and they're pretty good at having company bureaucrats ration health care to you while your premiums sore through the roof. When they don't cover a consultation, that's less money they pay out, and the more they make from you paying your monthly premium.popcorn Â· 6 years ago. Thumbs up. have blue cross/blue shield and they're pretty good at having company bureaucrats ration health care to you while your premiums sore through the roof. When they don't cover a consultation, that's less money they pay out, and the more they make from you paying your monthly premium. popcorn Â· 6 years ago.
One report by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group estimated that mid-sized to large employers spent an average $521 per employee on wellness programs in 2013. Thatâs double what they spent just five years ago, health economists Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll noted in The New York Timesâ Upshot.
In March 2013, the average cost for private industry employer health benefits was $2.26 per hour worked, or 7.8 percent of total compensation. That's a 23.8-percent increase in the average hourly cost of health insurance over the last 10 years.ccording to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the average cost of employee benefits to employers was relatively steady at 27 to 29 percent of the total compensation cost throughout the 1990s but began to increase at the turn of the century as health insurance costs began rising rapidly.