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Late last year there were two consequential federal healthcare reform decisions: the repeal of multiple ACA taxes and the court's affirmation that the Individual Mandate was unconstitutional.
As benefit needs and solutions evolve, one thing remains constant – employers recognize the need for expert guidance in addition to cost savings from their benefits brokers. Employers also expect their brokers to advise them on innovative benefits and upcoming trends, administration solutions, and regulatory and compliance issues.
MetLife's report, Examining Strategic Benefit Trends: What Employers and Employees Expect — and How Brokers can Deliver, provides insights from their 17th annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study to help brokers tailor their strategies based on employer and employee expectations across company sizes, industry types, and generations.
Inside the report you'll learn:
What expertise employers want from their brokers.
How company size impacts expectations.
Strategies to control (or manage) benefits costs.
How understanding and addressing employee perceptions helps employers achieve their objectives.
A recent Commonwealth Fund Report, analyzing employer-sponsored health plans, provides insights that can help brokers answer clients’ questions about the ongoing trend in increased premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket spending. Access the report to learn more.
IN THIS ISSUE Healthcare Reform:
Major Healthcare
Reform Decisions:
Tax Eliminated,
Individual Mandate
Deemed Unconstitutional
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Carriers Extend
January Submission
Deadlines ---------------------------------
MetLife Report:
What Employers and
Employees Expect -
and How Brokers
Can Deliver ---------------------------------
Commonwealth Fund
Report: Trends in
Employer Healthcare
Coverage, 2008 - 2018
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