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Managed Care March 2002	Employees increasingly inclined to enroll for benefits via Internet Ready or not, more people are turning to the Internet to do everything from researching health conditions and medications to enrolling for benefits...
Managed Care October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
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...
Managed Care January 2002	Employers struggle to preserve pharmacy benefit In an effort to protect the pharmacy benefit for employees, companies are using a variety of techniques to manage expenditures...
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Managed Care December 2003	Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured Employers would have to "pay or play" in some proposals for how to boost coverage for the uninsured.
Managed Care May 2002	Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers
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CFO June 1, 2007 Joseph McCafferty	A Little Less Shifty Employers are passing on less of the health-care burden to workers.
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Managed Care July 2002 Frank Diamond	Premium Hikes: No Cause for Celebration Lost market share and further erosion of public trust will be the long-term by-products of this short-term solution.
Inc. June 2008	How To Choose A Health Care Plan: Behind the Premiums Information about the formulas insurance companies use to arrive at a group health plan premium.
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Managed Care September 2003	Verizon Wants Workers To Pay Part of Premium In yet another instance in which health benefits play a major role in union negotiations, Verizon employees cite that company's plan to make workers pay part of the premium as a major sticking point in talks.
Managed Care January 2004	Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs Employers are adopting disease management programs in a big way to slow the pace of health care premium increases, according to a survey of 3,000 businesses.
Investment Advisor September 2006	Retirement Planning: News & Products While the majority of employers have been slow to adopt Roth 401(k) plans, a number of employees will indeed sign up... New York Life Insurance Company recently introduced Custom Whole Life Insurance... etc.
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Managed Care August 2007 John Marcille	Are Purchasers Now The Ones With the Vision? Employers have been doing much more to improve worker health.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Howard Gleckman	Providing For Your Own Care Long-term care insurance is getting even more pricey, so shop carefully.
Entrepreneur March 2008 Mark Henricks	An Apple a Day . . . When Jason Crawforth started Treetop Tech Inc. in 1997, he didn't offer employees company-sponsored health coverage. Today, he is finding there are more avenues to get health insurance.
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Managed Care May 2005 John Carroll	Evaporation of Retiree Benefits May Be Health Plan Opportunity With big companies steadily reducing coverage for retirees, plans need to devise products for this needy population.
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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.
Managed Care March 2004	Hospitals Retain Bargaining Edge In Contract Talks Contract negotiations between health plans and providers, primarily hospitals, were mild in 2002 and 2003, compared to how they played out in 2000 and 2001.
Managed Care October 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Some HMOs See Dividends In Charging Deductibles This may be one way to regain profitability, though getting permission from government regulators may take some doing.
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