Associations are using many tools to mitigate rising insurance costs. Associations, like private sector corporations, face skyrocketing costs in health insurance but some still manage to offer full insurance premiums for full-time staff. Both private and public sector employers with staffs of various sizes, on average, pay $4,704 per year toward health insurance for a single employee and $12,680 annually to insure a family, according to the Employer Health Benefits 2008 annual survey just released by The Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust. Twenty-nine percent of the respondents to CEO Update’s “Top Places” survey assume the entire cost of… Read More