Purchasing Health Insurance
» Purchasing Health Insurance, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2007
If shopped for employee health insurance AND/OR purchased (or renewed) or dropped their plan in the last three years AND talked to their employees about a health plan, the financial trade-offs involved, or other relevant health insurance issues.
12a. What was your general sense of what your employees most wanted in health insurance? Was their priority:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Substantial benefits | 20 | ||
| 2 | Low out-of-pocket costs | 50 | ||
| 3 | Just some health insurance coverage | 11 | ||
| 4 | No consensus on what they wanted most | 8 | ||
| 5 | Little or no interest in health insurance | 8 | ||
| 6 | (Other) | 3 | ||
| 7 | (DK/Refuse) | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 282 | |||
Notes: Fifty (50) percent of small employers who shopped for employee health insurance and/or purchased (renewed) or dropped their plan in the last three years and talked to their employees about health insurance say low out-of-pocket costs was the main concern voiced by their employees (Q#12a).
