For Large Companies, Cost Savings Can't Ward Off 'Cadillac' Tax For Long

Cost-curbing measures used by large companies to combat the likelihood of the ACA's “Cadillac tax” kicking in are working to hold down benefit cost increases in 2016, the National Business Group on Health said in a new report out Wednesday (Aug. 12). But the strategy may not work much longer: Nearly half of large employers surveyed this spring said such measures are still not enough to stop at least one of their benefit plans from triggering the 40 percent excise...