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Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2006 Humphrey Taylor	Opinion: Unintended Outcomes for Consumer-Drive Insurance So-called "consumer-driven" health insurance is designed to help informed consumers make better decisions about their medical treatment. But the high deductibles associated with these plans are affecting the end goal.
Managed Care October 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans?
Managed Care February 2006 Lola Butcher	Consumer-Directed Health Pains Two studies suggest that consumer-directed health care may not be a long-term method for controlling health care costs.
Managed Care October 2002	Survey: '90s Boom Didn't Increase Number of Covered Employees You would think that the roaring economy and tight labor market in the 1990s would have meant a significant increase in the number of people with employer-sponsored health insurance. But you would be wrong, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
CFO February 22, 2005 Joseph McCafferty	Attention Shoppers Consumer-driven health plans are catching on quickly, but are they the answer to runaway medical costs?
Managed Care June 2007	Nations Rated On Health Care Despite having the costliest health care system in the world, the United States ranks last compared with five other affluent countries on measures of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes, according to a survey analysis.
Managed Care November 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	The Evolving Health Plan The consumer-directed health care model isn't taking the country by storm, but its innovations are influencing other coverage designs.
Managed Care September 2000	Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion...
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006	Sales and Marketing: Where the Buck Stops Pharma's ultimate customer is the employer - the guy who pays the health plan's bill. Here's what he wants to know about drugs.
Managed Care August 2007 Lola Butcher	What Attracts Workers to Consumer-Directed Plans? High-deductible insurance hasn't been a big draw, but plan sponsors have found a few ways to make it attractive.
Managed Care March 2008 Frank Diamond	Humana's Multi-Year Pacts Could Be Attractive to Customers Health plan offers different cost guarantees in its No Worry and SmartResults consumer-directed programs
Entrepreneur January 2005 Joan Szabo	Tax-Free Bill of Health Tax-advantaged health-care spending accounts are proliferating and that means more opportunities to save on taxes as well as more ways for businesses to help pay for health costs. Here's a look at how each one stacks up.
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Howard Gleckman	How Will The Plans Work? Here are some quick questions and answers about the alphabet soup of health insurance and medical accounts.
Managed Care June 2006	Survey: Workers Not Guided When Choosing Care A study shows employers believe their workers can learn what they need to know to become better buyers of health services.
Managed Care August 2006	One Insurer, One Think-Tank Issue Studies of High-Deductible Plans High-deductible health plans are in the news and on the minds of researchers.
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 Kevin J. Delaere	Healthy Advice Both clients and financial advisers should consider health and medical savings accounts as a vital part of an investment plan.
Managed Care September 2003 Martin Sipkoff	This Isn't the First Attempt To Shift Cost to Employees Companies are decreasing their share of medical insurance premiums. It remains to be seen how this will affect workers' health status.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Don't Quit Your Health Insurance Quitting a job can elevate you to new heights in your career. To keep from paying the price, however, you need to make sure you bring your health insurance with you.
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Managed Care March 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed Plans Begin Measuring Patient Satisfaction Initial results are promising. Employees turn toward preventive medicine and away from expensive drug therapies.
Managed Care February 2008	Employer-Backed Insurance Gets Nonpartisan Nod The majority of Americans believe that universal coverage costs should be shared by individuals, employers, and the government.
Managed Care June 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed and Home-Brewed Regional health plans and small HMOs coming late to the consumer-directed health plan market haven't missed out -- yet.
Managed Care November 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Death of Community Rating Has Been Greatly Exaggerated The idea that everyone in a given geographical area should pay the same for health coverage has come under assault in recent years.
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Gleckman & Woellert	Your New Health Plan Health savings accounts, like 401(k)s, will give employees more choices -- but also a greater share of the costs
Managed Care October 2004	Consumer-Directed Insurance Plans Problematic for Patients, Docs, HMOs New studies are finding wide variations of cost and quality across hospitals and physicians, yet few private insurers, managed care plans, or public programs reward superior quality or efficiency.
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Managed Care December 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Companies Seek Guidance As Payment Options Increase HSAs, FSAs, HRAs -- it's all alphabet soup to many employers. HMOs need to be able to accommodate all sorts of new payment schemes.
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Managed Care December 2004	Tracking the Coverage Divide Low-wage workers face more than just one obstacle in trying to obtain health care coverage, according to a Commonwealth Fund report.
Insurance & Technology September 5, 2006 Maria Woehr	Healthy Options The Principal Financial Group is pushing competition in consumer-driven healthcare with an integrated health reimbursement arrangement and health savings account product.
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2002 Karen M. Kroll	Savings Plan$ Defined-contribution programs promise to help put the brakes on rising health-care costs.
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Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
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Managed Care January 2007	Consumer-Directed Drive Loses Steam Enrollment growth in consumer-directed or high-deductible health plans stalled last year, according to a survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Commonwealth Fund.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
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