The white paper, released by Truven Health Analytics — formerly the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters — concludes that employers could pays as much as $17,269 per employee to shift benefits to federally subsidized coverage starting in 2014. That per-employee expense is roughly $9,000 more than employers currently pay to cover each employee on a group health plan.
If employers decide to eliminate group health plans altogether without providing a subsidy to employees, each employee would pay an average of $16,551 per year for health coverage in 2014, according to the white paper’s findings. Under this scenario, employers would pay a penalty for not covering employees, but reduce annual healthcare costs.
However, the white paper concludes that eliminating health coverage may not be in a company’s business interest and “may potentially have a large impact on an employer’s competitive market position for retaining and recruiting talent.”
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