What Price for Universal Health Coverage? For Many Small Employers, Any Price is too High
This collection of figures is derived from a survey of employers conducted by Mercer. It investigates the reasons that some employers do not offer health coverage, how much they might be willing to contribute to employee health coverage, their opinions on proposed reforms to health coverage, and the burdens of compliance in states that have enacted reforms.
More than one-third of U.S. employers (almost exclusively small employers with fewer than 500 workers) do not sponsor an employee health plan, and a central question of the reform debate is how they might be induced to do so. Mercer conducted this survey of 545 employers that do not offer employee health coverage and 2,900 that do. The findings from this report can inform future reform efforts.
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