You don’t need me to tell you that stressed-out parents are less productive. Or that the health care utilization rate skyrockets in direct correlation to the expanding average weight of your risk pool. Or that kids with diabetes are always going to push up plan premiums.
Or do you?
Though employers are already putting more healthcare costs on employees, survey findings released by Towers Watson and National Business Group on Health say look out for a lot more to be shifted.
An expert believes the current, and somewhat outdated, model of insurance offered by employers today will need to change in light of increasing job mobility of Gen X and Gen Y employees.
Proposals to close California's growing deficit includes a 30 percent hike on employee contributions to health care and public employee pension reform.