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Employer-sponsored nightmare fuel
Our “Out of Pocket, Out of Reach” series has been detailing the bleak state of health insurance that workers get through their employers. Experts have told me 2027 will be even worse than this year, and recent developments at sizable public-sector employers are reinforcing just how catastrophic things are becoming.
