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Managed Care November 2002	Biggest one-year premium jump Health care premiums for large employers will increase 15 percent on average in 2003 -- the biggest year-over-year jump since Towers Perrin began conducting the survey in 1989.
Managed Care February 2002	Executive bonuses: Health care takes care of its own If health care bonus packages are any indication, then the industry itself would seem to be more immune to the effects of the economy than most other businesses...
Managed Care November 2003	Double-digit increases continue for health benefits Despite some slowing in the trend, employers can still expect to face the fifth straight year of double-digit increases for employee health care benefits. Towers Perrin surveyed 200 businesses with an average workforce of 7,200 to find that a 12-percent increase in costs is expected in 2004.
Job Journal November 28, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Few Whistle While They Work Disenchantment in the workforce often revolves around things that directly affect workers, such as the self-confidence workers feel in their jobs, the importance of professional development and challenging work.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Rules of Engagement Plants with most successful continuous improvement programs have workforces that are highly active in contributing to the company's cost-savings efforts.
BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Jena McGregor	Sweat More, Pay Less Principal Financial Group launched a health-care insurance product that asks participants with health risks to try to shape up or pay more.
Managed Care December 2001	Tie to Employers Stresses Fragility Of Health Coverage About two thirds of Americans receive health insurance through their employers or families, and many gain or lose coverage when they marry, divorce, or move to new jobs...
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Carol Marie Cropper	The New Pinch In Health Coverage Plans are costing more -- again. Here's how to sort them out.
Managed Care July 2007	ERISA Proposes Using TPAs A coalition of the country's largest employers said health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by third-party administrators such as banks, investment companies, and insurers.
Managed Care July 2007 Lola Butcher	Consumer-Directed Plans Fall Short of Expectation As the consumer-directed health plan design approaches its seventh year in the marketplace, some wonder if it will ever be more than a niche product.
The Motley Fool March 7, 2008 Brian Orelli	Insurers' Tarnished Reputations Shine Find out which ones rank lowest and why it doesn't matter.
Managed Care August 2000	Any International Health Plan Has To Be Cheap An affordable option for integrated health care bridging private U.S. insurers and Mexico's social security system would save American employers money while providing better care to Mexicans who work in the U.S. but whose families live in Mexico, according to a study.
Managed Care November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Health Costs: Steeper Still Workers will bear a greater share of soaring premiums in 2010, but employers take a hit, too.
Job Journal July 11, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Workers Want Straight Talk Spooked by the surge in corporate accounting scandalsm, wary workers are looking for more candor from their employers.
Managed Care August 2004	Computer Game Simulates Coverage and Outcomes Consumer-directed health care plans can work, say employers in a recent survey, if the right tactics are used to help workers manage their health and benefits better.
InternetNews January 8, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	To Tell The Truth Even though employees agree they are prepared to hear it, less than half believe they actually get credible information from their companies.
Inc. October 2006	Best On: Health Care The best candidates for governor based on health care policy.
Job Journal April 25, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: No Rush to Retire Why major corporations are working hard to recruit older workers.
Managed Care May 2006	Headlines On Deadline . . . Health plans appear to be having some trouble fulfilling a federal mandate that 80 percent of questions from Medicare beneficiaries about pharmacy coverage be answered within 30 seconds.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 William C. Symonds	Get Used To The Pain Another round of double-digit hikes in health-care costs is in the mail.
Managed Care November 1999 Steve Wetzell	To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment ...The more employers can get consumers involved in the game, the more providers will become directly accountable to consumers. Under traditional managed care, employers -- without realizing it -- have put themselves in the middle of the relationship between physicians and their patients...
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 January 2001	Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system...
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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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 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.
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Managed Care February 2002 Mick L. Diede & Richard Liliedahl	Getting on the Right Track Converging forces are an economic train wreck waiting to happen. Avoiding a disaster requires an understanding of the interconnection of health care's stakeholders and the global consequences of their actions...
Managed Care May 2000	Physicians Fudge Insurance Forms To Help Patients A study confirms what has long been considered common but is rarely discussed: Physicians often lie about patients' conditions to gain or improve coverage for their treatment.
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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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 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...
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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 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?
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