Your family’s health-care costs: $19,393 The average health-care costs of American families who are insured through their jobs is $19,393, up 7.3 percent or $1,319 from last year. Of this increase, workers’ out-of-pocket costs rose 9.2 percent. Payroll deductions for insurance coverage rose 9.3 percent. Employers have increasingly been offering health plans with larger deductibles to control their own costs and to force workers to use medical care more selectively.

Source: CNNMoney, May 11, 2011