Declining Health of U.S. Workers Is Driving Up Employer Costs
SHRM reports: “The unhealthy behaviors of the U.S. workforce cost employers an average of $670 per employee annually, according to the March 2011 Thomson Reuters Workforce Wellness Index. The index...
View ArticleSurvey: Access To Primary Care Lagging In Mass.
Copyright: (c) 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Source: Associated Press Wordcount: 680 BOSTON — More than half of all primary care physicians in Massachusetts are no longer accepting...
View ArticleYou Can’t Outrun Health Care Bills
Insurance News Net reports: “Medical costs are rising and the future of health care faces hot debate in Congress. What does that mean for baby boomers, like me? How do we avoid sliding into the...
View ArticleHealth Care Costs Explode
Insurance Networking News reports: “The Annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) contains some grim tidings for health insurers and others concerned by the rising cost of health care, as for the fourth...
View ArticleAnalysis Estimates Impact of Medigap Reforms on Medicare Spending and...
Kaiser Family Foundation reports: “Wednesday, July 20, 2011 As part of several debt-reduction and Medicare-reform proposals, some policymakers propose to prohibit Medicare supplemental insurance...
View ArticleU.S. will pay for half of all health care costs by 2020
CNN Money reports: “The U.S. government will foot the bill for half of all health care costs in the United States by 2020, according to a government report released Thursday. That’s up from 44% just...
View ArticleYour family’s health care costs: $19,393
CNN Money reports: “Health care costs for a family of four rose again in 2011, with employees paying a much larger share of the rising expenses, according to a new industry report Wednesday. American...
View ArticleHealth care reform key to debt crisis
Politico reports: “The debate over raising the statutory debt ceiling has accomplished little but revealed much about the unwillingness of many in Washington to face up to our generation’s most...
View ArticleTheory to practice: Health care reform
Politico reports: “Critics and supporters of the health reform law have one thing in common: Neither group knows what the most wide-reaching changes of the law look like in the real world. Those...
View Article5 ways to get cheaper medical care
CNN Heath reports: “It was the worst possible news at the worst possible time. In summer 2009, photographer Joel Maus learned he might go blind if he didn’t get a procedure to treat a cornea condition....
View ArticleMajority 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...
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