{"id":15289,"date":"2025-01-28T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15289"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:56:34","slug":"survey-says-employers-want-lower-health-care-costs-better-prepared-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15289","title":{"rendered":"Survey Says: Employers Want Lower Health Care Costs, Better Prepared Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/survey-says-employers-want-lower-health-care-costs-better-prepared-workforce\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/survey-says-employers-want-lower-health-care-costs-better-prepared-workforce\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"74676\" class=\"elementor elementor-74676\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-35994887 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"35994887\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a1686d2\" data-id=\"a1686d2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-859605a elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"859605a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74cbad1b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74cbad1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>WMC released three reports on its most recent <em>Wisconsin Employer Survey<\/em>, detailing the economic outlook and policy priorities of the state\u2019s business leaders. Kurt Bauer, President &amp; CEO of WMC, highlighted findings of the State Policy Report, including concerns of rising health care costs and support for particular policies, like fee schedules and transparency legislation, that could help control these costs. Additionally, the number of businesses having trouble hiring has dropped to its lowest number in a decade, but Bauer notes that 62% is still \u201cpretty darn high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lwZRpC_Tx9E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to listen to the interview.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/survey-says-employers-want-lower-health-care-costs-better-prepared-workforce\/\">Survey Says: Employers Want Lower Health Care Costs, Better Prepared Workforce<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/survey-says-employers-want-lower-health-care-costs-better-prepared-workforce\/ WMC released three reports on its most recent Wisconsin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15290,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions\/15290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}