Report Abuse. Probably not. I have blue cross/blue shield and they're pretty good at having company bureaucrats ration health care to you while your premiums sore through the roof. When they don't cover a consultation, that's less money they pay out, and the more they make from you paying your monthly premium.popcorn Â· 6 years ago. Thumbs up. have blue cross/blue shield and they're pretty good at having company bureaucrats ration health care to you while your premiums sore through the roof. When they don't cover a consultation, that's less money they pay out, and the more they make from you paying your monthly premium. popcorn Â· 6 years ago.
One report by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group estimated that mid-sized to large employers spent an average $521 per employee on wellness programs in 2013. Thatâs double what they spent just five years ago, health economists Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll noted in The New York Timesâ Upshot.
For private industry employers, the cost of benefits was 29.7 percent of total employee compensation. According to the BLS, the total cost per employee per hour for private industry employers in the Northeast was $33.43, and $10.41, or 31.2 percent, of that cost was employee benefits.