Each year, HR Hero surveys readers about your organizations’ benefits packages. Because 2010’s health care reform laws created sweeping changes in how businesses offer health insurance to workers, this year our January survey focused only on health insurance and health care reform.
According to the survey, an overwhelming majority (96.46%) of you work for organizations that offer health insurance to employees. The survey also reveals that most of you consider your health care plans to be a valuable asset, even though most of your organizations’ health insurance costs rose in the past year.
The survey also uncovered many other interesting trends, including the following:
- Most of your health insurance packages are about the same as last year’s (68.18%).
- Most of your health insurance plans don’t allow employees to get insurance for their unmarried partners (64.14%).
- Since the passage of the health care reform legislation, 69.70% of your organizations haven’t considered dropping your health care plans because they’re too important to your compensation package.
- A majority of you believes your organization’s health care costs will rise to some extent in 2011, and most of you (73.99%) think health care reform will raise your organization’s health care costs.
- To get ready for health care reform, many of you have taken various actions, including implementing wellness programs, adding a high-deductible plan, and reducing the number of employees to avoid the mandatory coverage requirement.
- Many of you have not made extensive changes yet because you are waiting to see how all of the health care reform legislation’s provisions are implemented and/or whether the legislation is repealed or changed.
Read the complete results of the survey
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