Employee benefits: taking a long-term view: dealing with rising costs, companies can continue to offer medical benefits, while managing the financial tradeoffs and implications for cost-saving strategies that haven't been fully utilized, in conjunction with using long-term panning.

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Employee benefits: taking a long-term view: dealing with rising costs, companies can continue to offer medical benefits, while managing the financial tradeoffs and implications for cost-saving strategies that haven't been fully utilized, in conjunction with using long-term panning.

In the midst of an anemic economic recovery, financial executives are evaluating every budget item closely, and employee benefits are no exception. As the cost of employee medical insurance continues to increase, companies are making tough financial tradeoffs as they try to control costs with minimum disruption to the business.

According to a survey of 156 financial executives, conducted from Feb. 25 to May 31, the vast majority of companies--in order to manage over the past five years--have...

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