Ken Sperling

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  Obamacare collapse would put employers in charge

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  April 24, 2012

  If the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, don't look to government for what comes next.

• Employers looking at corporate health exchange model

  By Amanda McGrory  |  March 8, 2012

  Moving forward, 94 percent of employers are committed to offering and financially supporting some type of health benefit coverage for employees, according to a new survey by Aon Hewitt, a human capital consulting firm in Chicago.

• Employer health costs surge to five-year high

  By Jenny Ivy  |  September 28, 2010

  Health care costs for employers in 2011 will be at their highest in five years, according to new analysis from Hewitt Associates.

• Survey: Most health plans will lose grandfather status

  By Jenny Ivy  |  August 11, 2010

  Almost all (90 percent) of U.S. companies surveyed recently by Hewitt Associates say they anticipate losing their grandfathered health plan status by 2014, with the majority expecting to do so within the next two years.

• Some firms to comply early with dependent coverage provision

  By Jenny Ivy  |  June 8, 2010

  Hewitt's survey of more than 500 large U.S. employers, representing 6.9 million covered employees, shows approximately 950,000 workers will be able to obtain health coverage for these dependents earlier than Jan. 1, 2011.

• Employers preparing to extend coverage to adult dependents

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  June 8, 2010

  Almost 1 million employers, or 19 percent, plan to extend health care coverage to their employees' adult children before they're required to do so next year, according to new research from Hewitt Associates.