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Sunday, October 11, 2026

Employees Defer Medical Care as Financial Pressures Increase - Bloomberg Law

Forty percent of employees surveyed by benefits advisory company Willis Towers Watson deferred medical care over the past year.

Twenty-five percent of the employees who deferred care said they couldn’t afford it, the company said Thursday. One-third of respondents said their health suffered, and 58% of people who found it difficult to afford care said their health suffered.

More than 9,600 employees weres surveyed from a broad range of large and midsize companies in December, 2021 and January 2022.

Employee financial well-being has been deteriorating since the start of the pandemic, with more employees—even those earning $100,000 or ...

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