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  • 'Pay-or-play' triggers fresh thoughts on health programs

    March 1, 2010

    Employers spend millions on health promotion initiatives, believing the programs are a key strategy to reducing health care costs. Yet, many struggle to measure the return of investment on those programs.

  • Can going through airport security be a health risk?

    March 1, 2010

    If you're like me, the thought of air travel ranks right up there with getting a root canal.

  • Step by step

    March 1, 2010

    Who would be bold enough to declare that the bruising recession has been a good thing? Cyndy Nayer, that's who.

  • Fuzzy math

    March 1, 2010

    The average increase for health insurance premiums between 2007 and 2008 was 5%, according to the 2009 Employer Health Benefits Survey from Kaiser and the Health Research & Educational Trust.

  • Psychological barriers prevent lowering of health care costs

    March 1, 2010

    On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes for the first time in recorded history. Not a professional athlete, Bannister was a medical student at Oxford University and ran the mile in 3:59:40.

  • Survey: Employers say health care reform will not control costs

    March 1, 2010

    While health care reform enters a cooling-off period, employers insist that reform must make cost-containment a central theme in order to lower health care costs, reports the National Business Group on Health and Towers Watson.

  • Small state, big ideas: Rhode Island on reform

    March 1, 2010

    While Congress debates the best approach to health care reform, Rhode Island already has made a number of innovative steps that can lead the nation toward a better system.

  • Employers can't get no satisfaction from insurers

    March 1, 2010

    U.S. employers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their health insurers, finds a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study.

  • Health insurers have best year ever in 2009

    February 18, 2010

    If you made it through the headline without bile rising in your throat, you’ve already done better than me.

  • Legal Alert: Complying with the new COBRA extension

    February 12, 2010

    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed on Feb.17, 2009 with the announced purpose of providing a massive economic stimulus to the U.S. economy.

  • Will a bipartisan health care summit revive reform?

    February 9, 2010

    President Barack Obama breathed life into the flatlining health care reform debate on Feb. 7 when he proposed a bipartisan summit on health care to be held Feb. 25.

  • No reassurance on health care reform

    February 2, 2010

    A week after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address in which he mentioned the topic of jobs at least four times more than health care, EBA’s health reform panelists reflect on what the president’s new focus could mean for the health care debate moving forward.

  • Survey: Employers say health reform will not control costs

    February 1, 2010

    While health care reform enters a cooling-off period, employers insist that reform must make cost containment a central theme in order to lower health care costs, reports the National Business Group on Health and Towers Watson.

  • 2010: Double digit hikes on health care costs

    February 1, 2010

    As many employers have already, unfortunately, discovered, health care costs continue to skyrocket. Experts analyzing a new survey project that costs for the most popular types of health care coverage will increase at double-digit rates for 2010.

  • Reconfiguring onsite health clinics

    February 1, 2010

    A tough business climate amid the likelihood of health care reform may require some employers to reconsider proposals and services for onsite health clinics.

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