As employers move past the anxiety and drama over the Supreme Court ruling on health care reform, there’s no escaping the fact that steep employee medical benefit costs remain as a serious concern – not only in the United States, but all over the world.
The cost of providing employee medical benefits continues to escalate at double-digit levels around the globe, although some regions are seeing cost increases beginning to stabilize, according to a new survey from Towers Watson, a global professional services company.