Since 1998, our healthcare survey has monitored the pulse of Canadians with employer-sponsored health benefit plans. We continue to track respondents’ overall satisfaction with the healthcare system as a whole and their own benefit plan, their concerns about their health and the health of their families, and their understanding of certain chronic illnesses.

Over the years, the survey has looked at the issues of workplace stress, the growing need for homecare services and disease prevention. It offers the benefits industry an important benchmark to evaluate emerging healthcare issues that impact employee health and productivity.

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2009: While it may be tempting for employers to cut health benefit spending in these uncertain economic times, companies must balance current pressures with the short and longer-term need for organizational performance and employee productivity if they are to weather the storm.

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2008:  An aging population, sedentary lifestyles, overburdened facilities, and increased levels of many chronic diseases are shifting the emphasis towards prevention as a longer-term solution to minimizing or avoiding cost and illnesses.

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2007: Over the 10 years that The sanofi-aventis Healthcare Survey has been published, one consistent finding rises above all others: health benefit plans are highly valued by plan members.

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2006: The results paint an optimistic picture by building on what was observed in last year’s survey: a growing willingness by plan members to accept a level of personal responsibility for their health and benefit plans, including the fact that tough choices have to be made.