A majority of U.S employers want to continue to provide health care coverage but are against the idea of the government requiring them to do so.
Researchers at Buck Consultants, New York, a unit of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Dallas, have based that conclusion on a survey of about 160 U.S. employers.
Only about 32% of the employers said they want to get out of the business of providing health coverage, and only 17% said they think that a law requiring employers to offer coverage would really expand the number of Americans with health coverage, the researchers report.
Other survey findings: