Sunday, August 28, 2011

LOSS OF INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR SOME EMPLOYEES

■Insurance exchanges could chip away at employer-sponsored benefits

About 10% of midsize or large employers expect to stop offering employees health care insurance after 2014, when insurance exchanges are supposed to begin operating, according to a Towers Watson survey of more than 1,200 companies. Another fifth said they are not sure whether they will drop health care benefits or not. The Associated Press (8/24)