While health insurers passed a 3 percent increase in premiums along to employers this year, workers at those companies faced a 14 percent averaged increase, the Kaiser Family Foundation survey found.

The average cost of family health policies this year is $13,770. The employees' share increased to about $4,000.

Employers pay the balance, but their share did not increase this year, according to the survey.

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