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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...
Managed Care July 2001	Slow, steady drop seen in employee health benefits Employer-sponsored health coverage isn't anywhere close to vanishing, but two new studies suggest that there has been gradual erosion of benefit availability over recent years...
Managed Care February 2007	Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Rates Falling A new report says that that 61 percent of non-elderly Americans had employer-sponsored insurance in 2004, compared to 66 percent in 2000.
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 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 2004	Headlines On Deadline ... The IRS has given health insurers extra time... HMOs now have more than... Employer-sponsored coverage seems to be eroding...
Managed Care June 2005	Headlines On Deadline ... Many jobs available to young adults pay little... Prescription medications are getting more difficult to afford...
Managed Care March 2000	Employers Predict Liability Expansion Bad for Coverage How employers would respond if patients were allowed to sue employer-sponsored health plans.
Managed Care November 2001	For Now, at Least, Fewer People Lack Insurance The Census Bureau says the number of uninsured Americans dropped in 2000, for the second year in a row -- a trend many experts doubt will continue, thanks to a weakening economy...
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Play It Safe With Your Health Census Bureau figures indicate 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. High deductible insurance is one solution that may help these individuals to avoid a potential financial disaster.
Managed Care August 2007	Health Coverage at Work on the Decline The likelihood of families having job-based insurance varies significantly with family income.
Managed Care April 2007	Comparing Congressional Health Care Proposals A review of health care reform bills proposed by Congress shows that many of them would cover more uninsured Americans than the current administration proposal.
Managed Care July 2000	Changing physicians: Why they do it More than 1 in 8 people changed their personal physician or other primary provider of health care last year. For people enrolled in HMOs, quality of care -- not something related to coverage -- was the number one impetus for switching providers.
Managed Care February 2001	Rate of uninsured falls, but underlying factors remain shaky The percentage of uninsured Americans fell from 1998 to 1999, for the first time in a decade. But, according to a study prepared by the Health Insurance Association of America, the underlying factors affecting coverage have not changed -- and that could mean the decline is just an illusion...
Managed Care September 2004	Employers Offer 'Consumer' Plans with Trepidation There is concern that these plans will primarily attract healthier and higher-income individuals, leaving sicker and lower-wage employees in higher-cost alternatives.
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 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.
Managed Care November 2000	Rise in employer-based coverage spurs drop in ranks of uninsured The Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans without health insurance dropped from 44 million in 1998 to 42 million in 1999, thanks in large part to a boost in the share of employers offering job-based coverage...
Managed Care February 2001	Employers more willing to pass benefit costs along Facing significant increases in health-benefit costs, employers appear less willing to bite the bullet than in the past -- and are passing many of those increases on to workers...
Managed Care November 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	The Uninsured: How Health Plans Can Do Well By Doing Good While health plans battle for market share, 38 million Americans are uninsured. At least some could be signed up, but pursuing them is not without risk...
Managed Care March 2004	More Retirees Face Life Without Health Benefits Employer-sponsored health benefits for retirees could go the way of house calls and dial phones thanks to increasing health care costs. A study says that 10 percent of 408 companies with 1,000 employees or more plan to drop coverage for future retirees.
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
Managed Care April 2000	More consumers have choice of health plans, but is it enough to make HMOs responsive? Competition benefits consumers, the theory goes. Policy makers who seek to alter market forces in health care should keep this corollary of capitalism in mind, says the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based think tank....
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 June 2006 Lola Butcher	As Employers Step Back, Individual Plans Step In Imagine an America where few businesses purchase health care for employees. Should that come about, the individual market will have new products ready.
Managed Care April 2001	HMOs: Watch Out For Internet-Based Benefit Managers Forrester Research predicts that Internet-based companies that help people manage their employer-sponsored benefits will become a force by 2005...
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 April 2002	Where Employers, Employees Don't See Eye to Eye Hewitt Associates found key differences in employers' and employees' views of health coverage...
Job Journal July 25, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Too Few Workers Insured When a problem affects nearly 44 million Americans, it becomes everyone's problem. Industry leaders hope to fund expanded coverage.
Managed Care July 2005 John Carroll	For More and More Workers, Small Pay Means Small Plans Some large health insurers are starting to offer limited-benefit plans for an unexpectedly vibrant niche - the working poor.
Managed Care September 2007	Ninety Percent of Adults Eligible For Medicare Have Drug Coverage A study from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research finds that 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older now have prescription drug coverage, compared to more than 75 percent who were covered in 2004.
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 May 2001	Outlook Number of uninsured unchanged; policy proposals aim to reduce ranks...
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 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.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Will You Be Covered? The costs of medical care have risen dramatically over the past several decades. Health insurance is a must for financial security, but many don't have it.
Managed Care November 2003	Calif. Businesses Vow To Fight Coverage Law A new law that makes employers extend health benefits to about a million uninsured Californians will be watched carefully. Opponents of the law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis two days before the recall vote that ousted him, vow to challenge it in the courts.
Managed Care June 2004	Headlines On Deadline ... About 50 of the largest U.S. employers plan to form a health insurance pool... Managed Medicare plans will receive at least a 6.6 percent increase in payment rates in 2005... The biotechnology industry...
Managed Care April 2001	Employers easing prescription limitations? Some older medications once viewed by employers as "lifestyle" drugs when making benefit decisions are slowly gaining recognition as important components of primary care...
Managed Care February 2007 John Carroll	Push To Reform System Makes Strange Bedfellows Nearly everybody's calling on the government to make health care coverage affordable and universal.
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Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Jeanne Lee	The Sky Is Not Falling Small business clients have been hard-hit by increased healthcare expenditures over the past 10 years, so it's not surprising that the healthcare reform bill has many of them anxious and confused.
CFO June 1, 2009 Alix Stuart	Prescription for Progress? The enormous changes being contemplated for health care, and the staggering costs associated with them, which could draw heavily upon corporate coffers, ensure that even if the road to reform is fast, it will not be smooth.
Managed Care November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2004 Traci Purdum	Health Care For All A coalition of large, global companies has a plan to offer the uninsured access to affordable insurance. That's welcomed news to 44 million Americans without health-care protection.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Health Insurance ... or Else Health insurance can protect you from huge medical bills. Yet for a variety of reasons, many people go without health insurance. Now, government leaders are taking a new approach toward making sure everyone gets the medical care they need.
Job Journal July 24, 2005 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Ailing Healthcare Coverage As healthcare costs increase, a survey by Yankelovich finds more workers rate healthcare coverage as their preferred employee benefit.
Managed Care February 2008 John Carroll	Move to Mandatory Coverage Wouldn't Ensure Universality Compared to the existing state of affairs, there's a lot to like in mandatory coverage, but the Massachusetts experiment is a lesson to not expect miracles.
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.