Cost Pressures From Several Sources Cause U.P.S. To End Spousal Health Benefits For Those With Alternative Coverage

U.P.S. To End Health Benefits For Spouses Of Some Workers by Steven Greenhouse.  New York Times.  August 21, 2013.

(1)  United Parcel Services will stop providing health care coverage to ________________ who can obtain coverage through _______________________.

(2)  Motivations for this move according to a company statement and the opinion of experts include
         (a)  Costs associated with the _______________
         (b)  A general desire to __________________ in a competitive industry;
         (c)  The federal health care law does not  require ____________
         (d)  Avoid being hit in 2018 with the so-called ___________.

(3)  The percentage of employers adopting a "spousal carve0out" is ___________.

(4)  The U.P.S. decision does not effect its _________________.

(5)  A consultant at Mercer predicted that the policy would  be ________ by other employers.

(6)  The vice president with the Kaiser Family Foundation expressed skepticism that the requirements of the health care law were ____________________________.