{"id":4533,"date":"2025-07-08T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:44:33","slug":"national-employee-benefits-news-study-reveals-employee-challenges-understanding-the-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/national-employee-benefits-news-study-reveals-employee-challenges-understanding-the-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"National Employee Benefits News Study Reveals Employee Challenges Understanding the Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"
A national study sponsored by Quantum Health presented new findings about how employees view the healthcare system and what problems they encounter. The State of Health 2023 <\/em>studyrevealed that 67% of all employees are \u201ccurrently navigating their healthcare journey alone without enough support from their employer or health insurer.\u201d Specifically, the employees wanted help understanding their options such as how to access leading care providers in their networks and related costs. Fifty-one percent of employers are finding this objective difficult to meet.<\/p>\n The study, conducted by Arizent, which is the parent company of the media outlet, Employee Benefit News (EBN), was comprised of a balanced mix of 500 employees (i.e., gender, age and race) and 165 benefit managers. The study sought to learn more about employees\u2019 and employers\u2019 perspectives on employee healthcare concerns. Here are some of the employees\u2019 perspectives:<\/p>\n Regardless of their employers\u2019 efforts, just 20% of employees are \u201cvery confident\u201d they understand their health benefits and how best to use them, although they did feel they were supported during enrollment periods. What they are finding especially difficult is in making the right decisions; an area where support is readily provided.<\/p>\n More details on The State of Healthcare 2023 <\/em>can be found at https:\/\/quantum-health.com\/newsroom\/national-study-by-employer-benefits-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A national study sponsored by Quantum Health presented new findings about how employees view the healthcare system and what problems they encounter. The State of Health 2023 studyrevealed that 67% of all employees are \u201ccurrently navigating their healthcare journey alone without enough support from their employer or health insurer.\u201d Specifically, the employees wanted help understanding… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbenefits.com\/amalgamated-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Employee and Employer Perspectives<\/h2>\n
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State of Healthcare<\/h2>\n