This week in benefits

A round-up of the week’s employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web

By James E. Green | Updated on June 10, 2011

This week in health care reform

One-third of employers plan to drop health coverage: A report by McKinsey released this week finds that 30 percent of employers will “definitely” or “probably” stop offering health insurance after 2014. The WSJ reports that this could mean as many as 78 million people will lose employer health coverage. The White House says these claims are exaggerated and that the McKinsey report is an “outlier.”

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