Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Your Doctor Is Killing You ... Financially What the doctor does has a big effect on how much health care costs.
Entrepreneur October 2009	Candid Talk From Both Sides of the Health-Care Issue An employee and an HR exec at a Midwestern financial services company spar over the cost of health care coverage.
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Rick Kahler	Healthcare on the Critical List Even if Congress does enact a new law, it seems that the same old problems will remain, at least for the next few years. So let's take a careful look at what's at stake.
Financial Advisor November 2010 David Armes	What To Expect Understanding upcoming health-care reforms.
Managed Care March 2005 John Carroll	Going on the Offensive Against Defensive Medicine The $60 billion to $108 billion that could be saved through tort reform would help 2.4 million to 4.3 million uninsured get coverage, the government claims.
CFO December 1, 2009 Kate O'Sullivan	All Eyes on Reform Public support for health-care reform is high, but some CFOs take a different view.
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Rick S. Kahler	Planning for Reform It will be important to pay attention in coming months, so you can plan for the impact health care reform is likely to have on your finances, your career and your clients.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2011 Morgan Housel	How Would You Fix the Health-Care System? Here are a few recommendations from various policy experts and research reports on how to put the brakes on our health-care costs.
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 October 1, 2009 Alix Stuart	Waiting and Wondering While it's not yet known exactly what health-care reform will look like, it's even less clear what the impact on company finances will be.
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Leif Wellington Haase	To Our Health With healthcare costs continuing to spiral out of control, it's time for Americans to take a serious look at solutions.
Entrepreneur March 2004 Joshua Kurlantzick	Health of a Nation The debate rages on about the cure for America's rising health insurance costs. But while everyone agrees that health insurance costs are skyrocketing, there is little agreement about the best ways to make health care more affordable for small employers.
BusinessWeek October 3, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Medicare: Decisions, Decisions With drug and HMO plans now in the mix, seniors face a raft of complex choices.
BusinessWeek September 16, 2009 Catherine Arnst	The Truth About Malpractice Lawsuits President Barack Obama tapped into a large vein of public support when he suggested recently that he is open to reforming medical malpractice laws.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance.
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Lerer & Armstrong	The Republican Response to Obamacare Republican proposals to control health-care costs would save the government only about $5 billion a year, or 0.6 percent.
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
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?
HBS Working Knowledge July 12, 2004 Porter & Teisberg	Michael Porter's Prescription for the High Cost of Health Care The troubled U.S. health care system needs a brave, new kind of competition, say the authors of this Harvard Business Review excerpt.
BusinessWeek October 1, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst	Why Business Fears the Public Option Executives contend that it will lead health-care providers to charge patients in private plans higher rates.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Understanding Medicare: Claims In general, Medicare provides a level of coverage that is fairly similar to what private health insurance plans offer. Here are some tips for getting the most from it.
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Catherine Arnst	10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now Employers and hospitals don't have to wait for Congress to address inefficiencies and waste.
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Weber et al.	Health Insurance: Small Biz Is In A Bind Disproportionately hit by cost hikes, more small businesses have stop offering health care coverage to their workers.
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.
Salon.com October 14, 1999 Dawn MacKeen	Woe is HMO Proponents of liability legislation argue that the only way to change managed care's behavior is to threaten it with lawsuits.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform: A Tale of Two Chambers Halfway done, but the battle is just heating up.
Managed Care May 2003 John Carroll	Is 1 the Answer?: More Calling for Single-Payer System Most would not want health care to go through such a major change unless it became a question of survival. Many say that's just where we are.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Arlene Weintraub	A Remedy For Malpractice Malaise Hospitals are offering free coverage to recruit doctors from private practice
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.
AskMen.com Tara Weiss	Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors.
BusinessWeek July 2, 2009 Sasse & Weems	Health-Care Reform: The Rush to Pass a Bad Bill The proposed laws making their way through Congress fail to answer hard, real-life questions about cost and care
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.
HBS Working Knowledge July 12, 2006 Roger Thompson	Competition the Cure for Healthcare Michael Porter is considered by many the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. So when he discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way the United States delivers healthcare, people listen.
Investment Advisor July 2009 Melanie Waddell	The Great Health Reform Debate President Barack Obama has set an ambitious deadline of October to achieve comprehensive healthcare reform.
Managed Care December 2002 Diane Cook	Beware the Hidden Consequences of the Malpractice Crisis Soaring malpractice insurance rates are thinning out provider ranks in at least a dozen states. Could access problems pose issues for HMOs in those areas?
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	What Bipartisan Health-Care Reform Means for Investors Republicans and Democrats will debate on TV, but little may come of it.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers.
BusinessWeek March 25, 2010 Charlie Rose	Aetna's Ron Williams on Health Care: What to Expect What does this new mandate mean for individuals, companies, and the health-care industry?
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.
Financial Planning April 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn	Front and Center With baby boomer clients entering the age of Medicare, it will become increasingly important for planners to keep up with the inevitable new wrinkles.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Fight for Your Rights: Health Insurance Claims Because you're paying for your health insurance coverage, you should get everything you're entitled to receive.
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Are Your Clients Covered? Today's healthcare system demands vigilance from consumers and planners alike. Some financial planners are taking on the complex, expensive market for individual health insurance. And they're finding solutions.
Managed Care August 2006 Frank Diamond	Return to Jackson Hole? The Push for a Standard Benefit A nationwide discussion about making health care available to all Americans gives new life to an old idea.
Reason July 2005 Brian Doherty	The Perpetual Health Care Crisis Book Reviews: Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World, by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick... Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer, by Sally C. Pipes...
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Restructuring Medicare Is a Riskier Operation than First Thought Hailed as a bipartisan success when passed in late June, two Medicare reform bills are losing some of their luster as they face closer scrutiny by a conference committee made up of members of both chambers charged with reconciling the legislation this fall.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Health-Care Reform: The Mandate Debate Experts say the only way to cover the uninsured is to require them to buy insurance or pay a fine. But how much should a penalty be?
Nursing Management April 2011 Deborah E. Trautman	Healthcare Reform: 1 Year Later A year after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the nation remains divided.
Registered Rep. May 25, 2011 Mark Miller	Pros and Cons of the Healthcare Reform Law The new health reform law already is changing the health insurance market in important ways that will affect your clients' choices and expenses.
Searcher October 2010 Stephanie C. Ardito	The Medical Digital: U.S. Healthcare Reform: A Follow-Up For those interested in serious, scholarly research regarding the historical progress of U.S. healthcare reform, this column and my prior column might be a good pairing for neutral sources.
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...