{"id":14308,"date":"2019-10-21T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14308"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:38:07","slug":"employers-say-curbing-healthcare-costs-is-top-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14308","title":{"rendered":"Employers say curbing healthcare costs is top priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the 24<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> annual Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey by Willis Towers Watson, found although 93 percent of employers say curbing the cost of healthcare and increasing its affordability is a top priority over the next 3 years, 63 percent of employers see healthcare affordability as the most difficult challenge. Due to the rising healthcare costs employees are facing a greater burden. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/newsroom\/survey-finds-93-of-employers-say-curbing-healthcare-costs-is-top-priority-\">here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7924\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 24th annual Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey by Willis Towers Watson, found although 93 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14309,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14308\/revisions\/14309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}