re: What is your health insurance increase for 2017?

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Is that like Medishare? Been hearing commercials about that and find it an interesting idea.

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Yes.

Mine increased 13%

Mine went from 182$ for 24 pay periods to 170$ for 26 pay periods. So its about the same. I'm sure the cost of what my company covers went up tremendously.

Still have not been told

I guess we are lucky ours is "only" 10% with no pay raise.

Mine went up 4%, it's still below $100/month for me. I have a high deductible plan with an HSA, my employer contributes $500 per year to it.

I work for a fairly small company (just under 50 employees) and went to a high deductible plan for the 1st time in 2016. I had been under a more traditional medical plan since 2001 with the premiums seemingly increasing every year.

I'm on our committee for choosing the 2017 plan and apparently our premiums (under our current carrier) are going up 15% for 2017. We are now considering a 'Level Funded Health Plan' under a different carrier that would result in a 10% decrease in 2017.

I don't know much about Level Funded Health Plans but a quick google search indicated that it's only available to companies with less than 50 employees. We've had claims running around 50% of premiums over the past couple of years. If this were to happen again in 2017, I think we'd (company) split the 'savings' 50/50 with the carrier. There would be no change to the employee other than carrier. We'd also set an overall 'Stop Loss' limit in case our claims are higher than expected in 2017.

Does anyone know anything else about these types of plans? Anything I'm missing with my general understanding?

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Not for long

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on that, you can count
we are already changing our contributions
it's not fiscally possible