The American Benefits Council laid out nine goals that it wants to pursue to fix the employee benefits systems within 10 years.

The goals are:

• Raise financial literacy
• Increase the share of workers in workplace retirement plans
• Raise retirement savings
• Make health coverage more affordable
• Increase the quality of health care service
• Increase the number of people with health care coverage
• Make retiree health and long-term care accessible and affordable
• Modernize Medicare
• Boost broad-based opportunities for employees to own stock.

source: The Society for Human Resource Management, 2004

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