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Mercer is a global human resources and benefits consulting firm, part of Marsh McLennan, known for annual surveys on health costs and workforce trends.
Business Group on Health's survey finds at least 10% of employer plans covering GLP-1 weight-loss drugs likely to drop them in 2027. About two-thirds of private employer plans covered them in 2026, and each exit now leaves workers to pay cash or stop.
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Fewer than six fully AI-run ETFs manage about $30 million of the ETF industry's nearly $17 trillion in assets. Their lead over the S&P 500 rests on records of a few months, in windows when the index rose.
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Treasury has finished automatically enrolling over 60 million children in Trump Accounts, so every eligible child under 18 now has one. Employer contributions still rest on proposed IRS rules, so benefits teams in 2027 open enrollment are pricing an offer on terms that are not yet final.
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Mercer's survey of 1,800 employers has benefit costs per employee rising 8.2% in 2027, the steepest jump since 2003. Two-thirds of large companies plan to raise the employee premium share, and one independent medical practice was quoted 22.5%.
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Pew asked more than 42,000 people what AI will do to employment, and the median answer was fewer jobs. TechSpot's reading of the tables puts the most AI-aware respondents among the most worried, and a Mercer survey puts executives at 99%.
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Mercer's survey of 1,800 employers puts health costs per worker up 8.2% in 2027, the steepest rise since 2003, and the $3.48 an hour employers already spend on health insurance comes out of the same budget as pay.
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The federal seed pays only when a guardian opens the account, so the employers now matching it have budgeted a per-child cost whose real size depends on how many of their own workers file the paperwork.
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Mercer sees employer health costs up 6.7% in 2026 to above $18,500 per employee, and half of large employers are already planning 2027 cost-shifts. The supplier has not been audited.
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