"Employers that choose to continue offering employee health benefits will need to focus on two goals for their plans: viability and affordability. Decisions you make on how you will play in health care will have an impact on your organization's brand, how you will attract and retain employees, the health and productivity of your employees, and how you organize and deploy your workforce. With the excise tax looming, many organizations are increasingly adopting cost-reduction strategies they may have been reluctant to leverage before health care reform."