Preparing for new health care law.

• Position: FERF RESEARCH

What do those 2,000-plus pages mean for senior-level financial executives and companies across the nation?

The Health Care Reform and its Effect on Corporate America report, by Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), in collaboration with Merrill DataSite, aims to shed some light on how companies are responding to the law, as well as what financial executives should be doing in preparation for the coming changes.

Among the key findings:

* 83 percent of survey respondents believed the bill would either slightly or greatly increase their company's costs.

* More than half (64 percent) believe that small business will be more adversely...