Study Finds Significant Impact on Employers by ACA

In the "Eighth Annual Study of Employee Benefits Today & Beyond: Health Care Reform: Full Steam Ahead", Prudential reports that:

"Employers have taken more action this year regarding benefits as a result of the increased impact of health care reform. Last year’s results suggested that employers were either not acting or just beginning to act in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act. With deadlines looming in 2014 and 2015, the story is much different this year. Health care reform has increasingly impacted both employee benefits as well as the level of action taken by employers. Not surprisingly, the impact to health insurance benefits has been notable, with 49% of employers saying they were extremely or very likely to make a high deductible health plan the only health insurance option."

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