April 2007

Analysis says CEOs support work-based healthcare

A majority of high-ranking business executives said they believed employers should have a role to play in healthcare, according to an informal electronic poll of several hundred CEOs, senior executives, and government officials at the World Health Congress.

Forty-four percent of members in the audience said they believed employers have interests in line with employees — more so than doctors, insurers, or the government. In addition, approximately one in three said a good benefit plan was the best way to get workers to focus on prevention.

President George W. Bush’s health reform proposal — favored by some influential economists — seeks to transition most Americans out of employer-sponsored coverage altogether and give them tax help to purchase insurance on the individual market. Several proposals by members of Congress, such as a recent plan by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would also take employers out of health insurance altogether.

Source: United Press International, www.upi.com

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