If you ever meet Tracy Watts, a consultant in Mercer’s Washington, D.C., office, ask her to read your palm or pick your lottery numbers.
In a Daily Diversion post nearly four months ago, Watts said that, “average health benefit cost per employee has been rising consistently at about 6% for the past five years. That seems to be employers’ threshold of pain. If compliance with health insurance reform pushes the cost increase up toward double digits, employers will be exploring ways to bring it back within their comfort zone.”
