In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, a new study reveals that most employers stand to save a lot of money by dropping health coverage and sending their newly uninsured employees to the exchanges.

The number crunchers over at Lockton Benefit Group – who know a little something about employee benefits – polled 130 different employee benefit plans for an actuarial modeling study that clearly shows the health reform law lays a load of new costs on employers. So many, in fact, that the law actually creates "a financial incentive for some employers to terminate health plans in 2014 when insurance exchanges take effect."

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