Heightened healthcare costs a top HR challenge

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  • Key insight: Discover how rising healthcare costs force benefits leaders to balance affordability and employee experience.
  • Expert quote: “Rising healthcare costs are forcing employees to make difficult trade-off decisions” — Matthew Owenby, Aflac
  • Forward look: Prepare for healthcare costs to continue their upward trajectory next year.
    Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review.

With healthcare costs rising, and only expected to continue their upward trajectory next year with the largest increase in over two decades, HR professionals are scrambling to keep their benefits competitively priced while still meeting changing employee needs. 

Danielle Lee
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Danielle Lee, editor-in-chief of Employee Benefit News, was most recently managing editor of Accounting Today, and previously served as technology editor of Accounting Today and editor-in-chief of … Read full bio


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