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Employee Health Care Benefits Have Support

The United States will spend over $2.1 trillion in 2006 on healthcare. Over $800 million of that will be paid by employers. What role should employers play in ensuring that their employee`s lives are covered? What role should employees play in taking their turn at the oars? That is exactly what was asked of The Total View readers, a weekly e-newsletter published by Success Performance Solutions, during the month of April.

According to Ira Wolfe, president and founder of this employee screening and assessment firm, fifty-five percent of the respondents said NO when asked if employers should be required to provide health care benefits. A surprising fifty-eight percent said "yes" if employers who don`t provide benefits should be forced to pay a subsidy for the uninsured.

Over one-third of the respondents shared their opinions, ranging from the last thing we need is more government intervention to it is the employers responsibility to help keep employees productive. Subscribers to this free publication, which the poll takers targeted, include over 6,000 human resource professionals, executives, managers and business owners.