In recent years, most of the news coverage of health insurance premiums has focused on trends in the Affordable Care Act marketplace, where only a small minority of Americans get their coverage.

Premiums for employer-sponsored plans, the most common type of coverage, are trending upwards as well. Between 2016 and 2017, the average annual premium for an individual employee rose by $267, to $6,368, according to an analysis conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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