A new poll shows nearly 80 percent of American business leaders are expecting to cut benefits if health care costs don't come down.
The survey, conducted by research firm Anzalone Liszt Research on behalf of Business Forward, also indicates almost 90 percent of executives believe they'll have to raise their employees' deductibles and copayments without reform. Eighty-six percent of those polled believe that health care costs will continue to rise in the next five years, and 55 percent believe it will go up "a lot."
Business Forward is an advocacy coalition that lobbies support for policies promoting America's "economic competitiveness." Some of the larger founding member firms include AT&T, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Time Warner and Visa.
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