What do health care consumers — and employees inparticular — want from their coverage? What do they understandabout it, and what don’t they? What frustrates them the most whenthey attempt to select health insurance?
These were key questions asked by the Healthcare Trends Institute in a survey of U.S. adultswith employer-sponsored health insurance. The institute, anonprofit that offers a platform designed to bring clarity to theever-changing benefits world, learned among other things that lessthan half of those surveyed are setting money aside to meet theirfuture health care needs.
That may be the most startling finding: 42 percent of thosequeried are not creating a medical care savings nest egg. But otherdata should be of concern to corporate benefits managers aswell.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
