Health care benefit plan sponsors face many unknowns in developing cost projections for 2021, but they expect to pay moderately more—4.4%, on average—to offer medical plans than what they spent this year, according to early results from Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans 2020.
Read MoreDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, employers are paying attention to health care coverage more than ever.
Read MoreThis year’s open enrollment season brings a unique opportunity for employers. Employees are more focused on their healthcare needs and benefits as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and are likely to pay closer attention to open enrollment—and their current coverages—than ever before.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has upended nearly every aspect of modern life – including open enrollment. Workers have become more focused on their benefits package — and how to use it — than ever before.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has focused consumer attention on health care, germs and the impact a single illness can have on their lives, livelihoods and loved ones. With the fall open enrollment season just months away, you have the opportunity to think more critically about the specific plans you choose for yourself and your family, as well as any voluntary benefits that may be available to you, including childcare, elder care and critical illness. In a world where it feels like health is out of the individual’s control, we all want, at the very least, to feel control over our coverage.
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