KFF’s 2025 Employer Health Benefits Survey found that the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage was $26,993. The average annual premium for single coverage was $9,325.
Among workers enrolled in employer-sponsored family health coverage in 2025, the average worker contribution toward the annual premium was $6,850, or about $571 per month.
KFF reports that the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage increased 53% from 2015 to 2025. Over the same ten years, workers’ wages rose 48.2% and inflation rose 35.8%.
Federal Reserve Financial Accounts data show that household debt equaled about 67% of disposable personal income at the end of 1980 and about 90% at the end of 2025.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an annual average of about 8.8 million multiple jobholders in 2025, equal to 5.4% of all employed people age 16 and older.
A JAMA analysis of U.S. medical marketing found that spending on direct-to-consumer prescription-drug advertising increased from $1.3 billion in 1997 to $6.0 billion in 2016, measured in 2016 dollars.
The same JAMA analysis counted about 79,000 direct-to-consumer prescription-drug advertisements in 1997 and about 4.6 million in 2016. The 2016 total included roughly 663,000 television commercials.
A JAMA analysis estimated that total U.S. medical marketing spending on drugs, disease-awareness campaigns, health services, and laboratory testing increased from $17.7 billion in 1997 to $29.9 billion in 2016, measured in 2016 dollars.
A JAMA analysis found that pharmaceutical-company marketing to health care professionals increased from $15.6 billion in 1997 to $20.3 billion in 2016, measured in 2016 dollars. The 2016 total included prescriber detailing, free samples, pa
In 1997, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidance explaining how prescription-drug companies could satisfy the “adequate provision” requirement for consumer-directed broadcast advertising. Instead of placing complete labeling i
