With a poor economy, sad unemployment rates and that little issue called the debt ceiling to worry about, health care reform isn't the first indicator influencing decisions about employee benefits. At least that's what employers say.

According to the Benefits Selling 2011 Employer Survey, employers seem to suggest health care reform is less significant — with 72 percent of employers insisting reform is making them rethink employee benefit offerings. Overwhelmingly, employers (at 88 percent) say the economy has influenced—and continues to influence—employee benefits spending. [Read "Workers' confidence remains stagnant."]

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