Health law or no, most businesses likely to keep offering insurance

Kaiser Health News' Amita Parashar reports: "One of the most fundamental ideas in the new health law is that employers should offer health insurance to their workers, or else they would have to pay a penalty, beginning in 2014. The fear has been that many businesses would opt for "or else," leaving their workers searching for coverage. But a new survey of more than 2,800 employers, conducted by the benefits consulting firm Mercer, found no big reason to worry" (Parashar, 11/9). Read the article.

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