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Health coverage eats up 9% of NJ household budgets

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BY KATHLEEN LYNN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

New Jersey workers paid an average of $4,900 for family health coverage last year, up from about $3,000 in 2006, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund said on Tuesday.

That increase came even though the growth of health premiums slowed in the years after the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — was enacted in 2010.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/health-coverage-costs-rising-1.1682825