Majority of Large Employers Revamping Health Benefit Programs for 2012,...
National Business Group on Health reports: “Employers Projecting Costs to Increase 7.2% Next Year; Nearly Two-Thirds Expect to Increase Employee Share of Premiums WASHINGTON, DC, August 18, 2011 — With...
View ArticleHealth care use slows premium hikes
Benifitspro reports: “Many workers will see their health insurance costs rise less next year than in more than a decade, partly because consumers are dialing back their health care use, a benefits...
View ArticleRyan expects health reform to cause cost “death spiral”
CBS reports: Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, a key voice in the GOP on the issue of health care, said Thursday he expects the Supreme Court to strike down a key element of President Obama’s health care...
View ArticleFree-Market Alternatives to Health Reform Work: Study
A new study by the Rand Corp. shows that free-market alternatives to President Barack Obama’s health reform may have an impact on bringing health costs down. Patients who are under doctors’ care often...
View ArticleCommonwealth Fund Commission national health care scorecard: US scores 64 out...
Eurek Alert reports: “Measuring period prior to Affordable Care Act, report finds improvement on some quality measures; steep decline in access and little overall progress since first scorecard in 2006...
View ArticleIs preventive care really free?
BenifitsPro reports: “In an effort to keep health care costs down and encourage better usage, the Affordable Care Act includes a provision that requires preventive care to be offered free of charge....
View Article2012 HSA and FSA cheat sheet
Benefitspro reports: “Everything you need to know about health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts in 2012. Health Savings Accounts What are they? HSAs are tax-advantaged medical savings...
View ArticleEmployees paying more for worse health care
Report shows health care costs outpaces income growth Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward...
View ArticleOPINION: Good, bad news on health costs
Business Insurance reports: “THERE IS GOOD NEWS and there is bad news in the latest Mercer L.L.C. analysis of group health care plan costs. The bad news: Even in a down economy, group health care costs...
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Employers Skeptical of Health Care Reform, But Few Project Dropping Health...
NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — “Even in an environment of uncertainty about the future of health care reform, a majority of employers surveyed (56 percent) say that they are likely to continue...
View ArticleIRS resolves employer queries about calculating health costs
Business Insurance reports: “WASHINGTON—Internal Revenue Service guidance released last week resolves additional questions employers have raised about a health care reform law requirement that they...
View ArticleHealth reform law has small insurers on edge
Peter Frost of The Chicago Tribune reports: “United Security Life and Health Insurance Co. lost money in 2009. The next two years weren’t much better. So when it came time for the small Bedford...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Tax Credits In Obama Plan
Insurance News Net reports: “Feb. 17–President Obama’s proposed budget includes expanded tax credits to help small businesses pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the White House...
View ArticleBlue Cross opens door to insurance rebates in Illinois
Chicago Business reports: “The parent of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois is opening the door to rebates, which could provide badly needed relief to customers and trim the insurance giant’s...
View ArticleHealth care reform: 4 inconvenient truths
Politico reports: “President Barack Obama promised over and over during the health care debate that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” It turns out that, for a lot...
View ArticleMost Small Businesses Not Planning for Health Care Reform According to...
Market Watch reports: “MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Mar 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — The majority (85%) of small businesses are not making changes or long-term plans based on health care reform...
View ArticleSmall comfort: Health care costs projected to increase less than 10%, first...
Employee Benefit News reports: “Cost increases for health care are perhaps finally slowing down, with employer health benefit expenditures not expected to increase in 2012 at the same explosive growth...
View ArticleConservative Health Care Solutions
Insurance News Net reports: “WASHINGTON, April 16 — Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. (4th CD), issued the following column: To hear the media tell it, congressional Republicans have no solutions for health care...
View ArticleKaiser Analysis Estimates Cost-Sharing for Bronze Plans Under Health Reform
Kaiser Foundation reports: “The least expensive health plan that most Americans would be required to purchase in 2014 under the so-called ³individual mandate² would provide coverage largely for...
View Article2012 HSA and FSA cheat sheet
Health Savings Accounts What are they? HSAs are tax-advantaged medical savings accounts available to taxpayers who are enrolled in an HSA-qualified high-deductible health plan. The funds contributed to...
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