Despite dealing with uncertainty in the country's health care system and rising costs, most employers say they plan to keep offering their employees health benefits, though they'll look for other ways to cut costs, according to new research.
Most employers—at 88 percent—affirmed their commitment to offer health care benefits to their active employees for the foreseeable future, according to a survey of 440 midsize to large companies by Towers Watson released Monday. That's in part because most employers say they lack confidence in state exchanges set up by health reform.
The survey projects the total cost of health care to rise 5.3 percent in 2013, to $11,507 per employee. That's a relatively slow increase; by comparison, 2012 saw a 5.9 percent increase.
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