15% of businesses plan to reduce health care benefits to employees in coming year

CHICAGO, Nov. 2, 2007 - In a national survey of chief financial officers and senior comptrollers conducted by Grant Thornton LLP, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations, 15 percent of those who provide health care to employees, plan to reduce these benefits in the next 12 months.

If you provide health care benefits to employees, do you expect to reduce these benefits in the next 12 months?
Yes	15.26 %
No	84.74 %

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