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Health management efforts hampered by several factors, survey finds
March 9, 2010More large employers are instituting health plan strategies that encourage workers to take responsibility for their own health, according to a recent survey by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health.
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Health care summit: Moving the goal line?
March 2, 2010They came; they sat; they talked. And talked. And EBA’s health care reform panel watched and listened.
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Why do Canadians live longer while spending less?
March 1, 2010Canada has a single-payer health care system in which virtually all medical care is government-paid. Consumers have no copayments, no deductibles and no medical cost sharing.
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A possible path for reform
March 1, 2010While things are currently in turmoil, health care reform is bound to happen in one form or another, sooner or later. If reform does not happen on the federal level, it may happen in state legislatures. Whatever form it takes will likely lead to significant changes in the major medical marketplace - not all of which will good for advisers. Rather than dreading the inevitable, though, forward-thinking advisers such as Russ Childers, owner of Russ Childers Insurance and Investments in Americus, Ga., are focusing on the opportunities that reform can present.
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Preventive care strategies: The carrot and the stick
March 1, 2010Employee health care costs have increased 9% to 12% annually in recent years, far outpacing inflation. Those costs are expected to double within five years.
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No reassurance on health care reform
February 2, 2010A 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.
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Wellness programs linked to employee engagement, retention
February 1, 2010Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged in their work when their employers make wellness a priority, according to a white paper from Right Management, a subsidiary of Manpower Inc.
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Back to the future
February 1, 2010I recently read Who Shall Live?, written in 1974 by Victor Fuchs, professor emeritus of health care policy at Stanford Medical School. This month's column summarizes the book's major findings, including some interesting quotes.
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Seeking higher ground
February 1, 2010There's almost universal agreement among producers and their employer clients, as well as the employee populations they serve, that one's income is a person's most important asset - and that a sound financial-planning strategy must be in place to protect those earnings.
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It's time to put HSAs on the online benefits enrollment menu
February 1, 2010It's likely that health savings accounts will remain part of the benefits landscape regardless of the final outcome of the current push for health care reform.
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Mind clients' Ps and Qs for smoking cessation
February 1, 2010Smoking costs a whole lot more than the price of cigarettes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified tobacco use as the single most preventable cause of disease, disability and death. Health-related economic losses from smoking are an astounding $193 billion. Most of the cost ($97 billion) is from lost productivity. The problem is simply too big to ignore. Recommending a smoking cessation program for your clients is solid advice
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Mass. election shows it’s time for a new playbook on health care reform
January 26, 2010It’s been about a week since Republican Scott Brown’s election to Senator Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat derailed Democrats’ health care reform efforts by ending their filibuster-proof, 60-seat majority.
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Are one-year policies best practice?
January 1, 2010Our current private health insurance market is dominated by one-year health insurance policies - not 10-year, 20-year or lifetime policies. Do these short-term policies offer carriers and providers the right financial incentives to improve the health of our population?
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License to care
January 1, 2010In use by roughly 4% of Americans with insurance coverage, consumer-driven health plans are by no means dominating the health insurance market.
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