摘要:Earlier this year, for The CEO Challenge 2006, The Conference Board surveyed 658 chief executives about their top concerns. Globally, the CEOs ranked the cost of employee healthcare benefits only 52nd -- Asian CEOs ranked the issue a remote 88th -- but in the United States, healthcare costs placed seventh. Two obvious explanations for this disparity: (1) In many countries, workers are generally covered by some form of government-sponsored health insurance, so it's not something employers have to be concerned about, and (2) in nations without universal health care, neither employee unhappiness nor the cost of benefits has reached a critical point.