Survey findings released by Towers Watson and Washington-based National Business Group on Health reveal that employers are becoming more aggressive in shifting healthcare-benefits costs to employees.
The survey notes that incremental changes employers made in the past to pass costs to employees were just a drop in the bucket compared to what will likely happen in the future.
The reason for more aggressive transfer of costs is because total anticipated annual costs-per-active employee are expected to reach $11,176 in 2011. This figure is a 7.6 percent increase over 2010, the study noted.
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