Thursday, February 26, 2009

People Or Values, What's Driving Future Health Care?

With 8% of surveyed employers planning to offer only consumer-driven plans in the future, the CHDP market is still open to expand, especially as people start to think about retiree medical coverage, says Mercer's Tracy Watts in our final interview.

Also, getting the chronically ill in compliance with their treatments has potential for a huge ROI, with the future of value-based benefit design likely hinging on the prescription drug component of it. As for wellness-focused benefits, they better produce quantifiable results or they won't stick around in this economy.

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