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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 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 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 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
Inc. May 2005 Stephanie Clifford	Managed Competition Gains Admirers Hillary Clinton health care is back, and it's working for businesses who choose to use managed competition to lower health care costs.
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.
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.
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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 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 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.
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Managed Care January 2008	American College of Physicians Promotes `Medicare for All' Plan The American College of Physicians, has endorsed single-payer national health insurance as "one pathway" to universal medical coverage.
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 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 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.
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BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 Amy S. Choi	Why Small Biz Is Skittish About Health-Care Reform Despite a charm offensive by Obama, health-care proposals leave entrepreneurs wary
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Managed Care November 2000	Rights Bill Inaction Spurs Clinton To Act Without Congress Health care issues generated political brinkmanship as the 106th Congress skidded toward Election Day -- capped by President Clinton's declaration of a limited series of patient rights regulations following Congress's failure to pass a patient rights bill...
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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.
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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.
Managed Care November 2007	2008 Cost Hike Should be Less Than 2007 Cost increases for health services should lessen for both employers and the health insurance plans that serve them in 2008, according to two major consulting companies.
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.
Managed Care April 2001	Purchasers Still Not Focused On Quality, Says Business Group It's a common lament that all but the biggest companies buy health benefits primarily on the basis of price, not quality. New findings by the Washington Business Group on Health back up that assertion...
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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 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...
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Managed Care December 2003 Margaret E. O'Kane	NCQA To Look More Closely At Issues Small Employers Care About Why don't small employers consider health care quality information the same way large employers do when making benefits decisions? We asked the president of NCQA.
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