For more than two decades, Hewitt Associates' health care survey has tracked employer health care practices, benefit programs, and efforts to provide and manage workforce health benefits. This report, Challenges for Health Care in Uncertain Times, highlights employer-sponsored health care programs and other benefits including short- and long-term cost trends, strategy, and design features. In addition, it covers employers' practices, views, and perspectives regarding managing health care costs, improving workforce health and productivity, and cost prevention—allowing us to identify trends, critical business issues, and opportunities as they develop.

This report examines data collected from Hewitt's annual health care survey, The Road Ahead—Emerging Health Trends 2009, which continued to collect directional data about cost trends, strategy, and design features of employer-provided health care and other benefits. The 2009 survey also collected information on the post-election prospects for health care reform and employer views on the economic downturn.

The results from this survey are presented in the document, Survey Findings: Challenges for Health Care in Uncertain Times 2009.

Click here to access a PDF of the survey findings.