Health reform won't drive employers to terminate health benefits en masse, analysts at the nonpartisan Urban Institute say.

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers released a report Friday explaining why declines in employer-sponsored health insurance will have nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act.

The report is a response to a recent survey from McKinsey & Co. that found 30 percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering employer-sponsored insurance after 2014, because that's the starting year for state-run health insurance exchanges.

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