More than two-thirds of large employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health plan to increase employee contributions to health care plans next year, and most are making changes to health plans in advance of federally mandated health care reform. The Washington-based group’s survey found 53 percent of …
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Employee health care costs going up
August 27th, 2010Small Businesses Wrestle With What Health Reform Will Mean For Them
August 27th, 2010 The Santa Cruz Sentinel/San Jose Mercury News: As a result of the federal health overhaul, businesses “with under 50 full-time equivalent employees will be under no obligation to offer health insurance, but those with over 50 must offer it or pay a fine. This will require counting employee hours; 30 …
wonder what this really means
Illinois Launches Health Insurance Program, California To Follow Suit
August 27th, 2010(Health Insurance News) — As the new health reform law requires, states are continuing to establish health insurance pools for “high-risk” patients.
The Associated Press/Chicago Sun-Times: ”Hundreds of Illinois residents have submitted applications for a new federally funded health insurance program for people with medical problems. … Illinois Department of …
wonder what this really means
Group Health testing insurance incentives in effort to cut health-care costs
August 27th, 2010Group Health Research Institute has received a $2 million federal grant to study whether a relatively new health-insurance model can support and improve patient health, and hence can reduce cost. If it does, many insurers and self-insured employers may well adopt this model, which uses financial carrots and sticks …
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Democrats Move Away From Health Cost Pitch, Focus On Changing Senior Minds
August 27th, 2010Democrats are “dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to ‘improve it,’” Politico reports. “The messaging shift was circulated this afternoon on a conference call and PowerPoint presentation organized by FamiliesUSA – one of …
if people only knew
Employee health care costs going up
August 25th, 2010More than two-thirds of large employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health plan to increase employee contributions to health care plans next year, and most are making changes to health plans in advance of federally mandated health care reform. The Washington-based group’s survey found 53 percent of …
it should be interested what change will this make
Small Businesses Wrestle With What Health Reform Will Mean For Them
August 25th, 2010 The Santa Cruz Sentinel/San Jose Mercury News: As a result of the federal health overhaul, businesses “with under 50 full-time equivalent employees will be under no obligation to offer health insurance, but those with over 50 must offer it or pay a fine. This will require counting employee hours; 30 …
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Illinois Launches Health Insurance Program, California To Follow Suit
August 25th, 2010(Health Insurance News) — As the new health reform law requires, states are continuing to establish health insurance pools for “high-risk” patients.
The Associated Press/Chicago Sun-Times: ”Hundreds of Illinois residents have submitted applications for a new federally funded health insurance program for people with medical problems. … Illinois Department of …
this is bogus, who would think
Group Health testing insurance incentives in effort to cut health-care costs
August 25th, 2010Group Health Research Institute has received a $2 million federal grant to study whether a relatively new health-insurance model can support and improve patient health, and hence can reduce cost. If it does, many insurers and self-insured employers may well adopt this model, which uses financial carrots and sticks …
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Democrats Move Away From Health Cost Pitch, Focus On Changing Senior Minds
August 25th, 2010Democrats are “dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to ‘improve it,’” Politico reports. “The messaging shift was circulated this afternoon on a conference call and PowerPoint presentation organized by FamiliesUSA – one of …
maybe this will change things