"From an employer perspective, one of the interesting things about the Cadillac tax ...

... being delayed for a couple of years is we are now going to see a lot of companies moving to full replacement, high-deductible plans in 2017. [In the] plan design survey [conducted by the National Business Group on Health this year we had something like 27% of companies considering moving to a full replacement high-deductible plan for 2017, really in anticipation of the Cadillac tax going into effect. But with a two-year delay I think we are going to see that level off.... [Employers] will look at ACOs, performance networks and centers of excellence and try to understand how these delivery models can perform versus the market from a cost, an outcomes and a patient experience perspective. And I would say that ACOs in particular are not very well understood."

— Brian Marcotte, president and CEO of NBGH, told AIS's Health Plan Week.