I thought it was during Nixon’s wage freeze. I can tell you this, when I was 17 my first job was to assist in doing the payroll at a small manufacturing company. Single insurance was $.97 a week and family coverage was $2.54.
The first warehouse job I had cost $2.00 a week for family coverage and this was a non-union job from 1984-1997.
Today, at a different company, I pay $29.73 a week for my wife and I. Kids would be extra per child. Probably will cancel after this year. My wife has coverage and both will go up so much it doesn’t pay to have both.