Employer healthcare costs to rise

WTW’s research – the 2020 Global Medical Trends Survey Report– identified that, ultimately, changes in healthcare costs, which differed across the five regions studied, were minimal, varying only moderately from previous years. Europe will experience an increase of 0.1 per cent, from 4.2 to 4.3 per cent; and Latin America a slight decrease from 12.2 per cent to 11.7 per cent. Indeed, the most notable change is in the Middle East and Africa, where the increase if projected to be 0.8 per cent.

But still, and as Cecil Hemingway, WTW...