By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Healthcare companies including Aetna Inc, Mercer and Towers Watson Co have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build exchanges that allow company employees to buy their own insurance, betting that Corporate America wants to get out of managing workers' health benefits. By last year, blue chip names like Sears Holding and Walgreen Co had signed on and industry experts predicted that more than 20 percent of the nation's employees would soon buy their health insurance in this way, compared with less than 2 percent today. "We have a lot of wait-and-see going on with large employers," said Brian Marcotte, chief executive of the National Business Group on Health, a lobbying group for large corporations. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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