Assessing Health Benefits to Ensure Equity in Affordability

For women, health benefits are worth over $1.3 billion less than for men. This results in higher out-of-pocket spending among women and increases the financial gap between the sexes. Andy Davis, principal for Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Health Care practice, and Marielle Farina, senior manager at Deloitte Consulting, discuss this imbalance in health benefits equity and what employers and health insurers can do about it.