There has been quite a bit discussion among readers of this blog about what will become of consumer-driven health care now that the health care reform package has become law. Some worry the regulations yet to evolve will strangle CDHC plans out of existence; others say that the new universal coverage requirements of the law will allow these plans to flourish.

A new analysis of data collected by New York-based benefit consultant Mercer LLC would indicate that the verdict will come down on the side of those who look for the adoption rate for CDHC plans to explode.

According to the analysis of data Mercer collected from its 2009 health care cost survey of nearly 3,000 employers, more than one in three employers have at least some employees for whom coverage would be considered "unaffordable" under the new health care reform law.

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