Health Populi July 22, 2025
At least one-half of employers will likely raise employee cost-sharing amounts in 2026, according to the Survey on health & benefit strategies for 2026 from Mercer.
Mercer surveyed 711 organizations for this study, fielded in April 2025, to assess employers’ views on and strategies for health benefits in 2026.
There are three challenging pillars underlying employers’ 2026 approaches to workers’ benefits:
- How to disrupt cost growth with what Mercer coins as “bolder” strategies
- How to consider and address all dimensions of affordability, and,
- How to design and implement inclusive benefits that build workforce resilience.
These are indeed tough challenges as health benefits costs continue to increase well beyond the level of general price inflation, Mercer points out. Some...
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