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One provision would keep PBMs from steering enrollees toward their mail-order pharmacies.
Fewer told Milliman they rate the offerings as important to recruiting and retaining employees.
For benefits brokers and benefits managers, one revelation may be the lack of a system recovery tracker.
About 1 in 140 of the newly unemployed workers die from suicide or drug overdoses within a year, the researchers estimate.
In 2019, Kamala Harris backed a "single payer" proposal that allowed the sale of private insurance.
Pat Tomlinson, Mercer's CEO, sees strong demand for digital solutions.
The cost of stop-loss coverage rose across the board, with increases highest for employers with high deductibles.
The giant Blue Cross and Blue Shield carrier is seeing employers giving it more of their plan business.
The regulators may be looking hard, but the payers are still paying, and the patients still need care.
Obesity fighters like Wegovy could help, overall, but are adding $23 per member per month to prescription spending.