Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape: How Private Exchanges are Bringing Choice and Consumerism to America's Workforce

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Six Questions to Ask Before You Choose a Private Exchange

In 2014, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that private exchanges “have the potential to reshape employer-sponsored health insurance, which covers 149 million people, or nearly 56% of the U.S. non-elderly population.”¹ Kaiser conducted interviews with several leading private exchanges, including Liazon, as well as many employers and health plans moving in this direction, to create a picture of this quickly growing landscape.

This chapter draws on Kaiser’s research as well as that of leading benefits consultants Barbara Gniewek, a principal in PwC’s Global Human Resource Services practice,² and Rhonda Marcucci, divisional vice president and national HR & benefits technology practice ...