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April 19, 2010 at 08:00 PM
Managers of companies with employees in more than one country like many of the strategies U.S. employers are using to try to hold down health coverage costs.
Consultants at Towers Watson & Company, New York (NYSE:TW), have published data supporting that conclusion in a summary of results from a survey of 106 employers with at least 500 employees and “significant” operations in more than one country. About 93% of the companies are based in North America.
Although many of the multinationals operate in countries with “universal health care” systems, employers still sponsor private health plans in many of those countries, and 77% of the participating multinationals said they offer employee health programs outside the United States in place of, or in addition to, publicly provided programs in all or most of the countries in which they operate.
