Employee-Paid

One question is whether employers will have any say over how the plans' new overlord emerges from its digital crate.

Executives are also talking about what uncertainty is doing to large employers' benefits purchasing behavior.

The projected cost of health-related expenses during retirement has more than doubled since 2002.

“Hospitals miss opportunities to learn from and reduce harm when their incident reporting or other systems fail to capture harm events,” the report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) said.

A Principal executive maintains that some rivals are offering first-year prices that appear to be unsustainable.

More employers are holding the monthly premiums down by setting deductibles at $700,000 or higher.