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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
America's Health Insurance Plans
Center for Studying Health System Change
Department of Labor www.dol.gov
Employee Benefits Research Institute
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Federal Register www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
National Business Coalition on Health
National Business Group on Health
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America
Society for Human Resource Management
Employees in Midwestern and Northeastern states are more likely to participate in retirement plans than their Southern and Western counterparts, states new data from the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute.
At an April press briefing announcing findings from a National Business Group on Health survey, EBN spent five minutes with Harry Spencer, NBGH chairman and Time Warner vice president for global benefits, to get an inside peek at the benefits workings of the multi-billion-dollar corporation whose holdings include some of the nation's most famous acronyms - HBO, CNN and AOL, to name a few.
To be touted as the Prince Charming of health care - believed to be bringing happily ever afters to cost-burdened employers - consumer-driven health plans are looking more like an ugly stepsister these days.