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Benefits Sellings annual employer survey shows that 80 percent of benefits professionals see health care reform as their biggest challenge. What do they face and how are they coping?

By Ingrid Case | Updated on October 01, 2013

Benefits Selling’s annual employer survey found that many things are business as usual in the benefits world: For one thing, employers continue to try to restrain costs while attracting and retaining employees with the richest possible benefit packages.

About 67 percent of employers offer health care benefits. Slightly fewer than half of respondents offer health savings plans, or HSAs, and a little more than 68 percent agreed employees think health insurance is the most important benefit they have.

This year, though, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the big difference. A large majority of respondents—80 percent—say health care reform has made them rethink their employee benefit offerings.

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