Health insurance in the workplace won't go away because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But it will be different.

That's the latest word from roughly 1,000 employers surveyed by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Though the new report found that employers are concerned about cost increases to health benefits next year as a result of reform, virtually all employers intend to keep their coverage for full-time workers.

The majority of employers (69 percent) say they will "definitely" continue to provide employer-sponsored health care when health exchanges come online in 2014 — a 23 point increase from 2012.

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