A study by Lincolnshire-based Hewitt Associates has estimated 9 percent rise in job-based health insurance for US workers in 2009. It is also estimated that the cost of health care benefits for companies is going to increase by 6.4%. 

This will result in employees having to pay more for health cost. The increase for companies will reflect upon the employees pocket as well. The average annual premium insurance cost per employee will be increased from $8,331 up to $8,863. 

“People are getting hit from all over the place. Companies are hunkering down through this,” Craig Dolezal, principal in Hewitt’s health-management practice, said. 

The study is based on the data analysis of more than 1,800 health plans throughout the US, more than 300 major employers and more than 13 million health-plan participants.