Core and Group Health

As sharply rising health care premiums eat into workers' pay, young, healthy professionals are rejecting employer-sponsored insurance. Instead, they're going without coverage or finding cheaper options, saying they can't afford to be on the company plan.

Underscoring these concerns, nearly half of insured adults (46%) say that lowering out-of-pocket costs is the change they'd most like to see to their health insurance.

Regulators are facing pressure to act in the growing disagreement over claims-data requirements.

The health insurer is also ending individual exchange plan sales and spending more on severance costs.

Self-insured employers want ideas about how to hold benefits costs down.

One solution to escalating costs might be changing how plans provide primary care.