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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 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 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...
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 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 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 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 May 2003	Latinos more likely to be uninsured, says study Latinos are much more likely to report being uninsured than whites or blacks, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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 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 May 2001	Outlook Number of uninsured unchanged; policy proposals aim to reduce ranks...
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?
Reason May 2001 Nick Gillespie	The Census and The Sopranos Adventures in a post-racial America...
Managed Care October 2002	Survey: '90s Boom Didn't Increase Number of Covered Employees You would think that the roaring economy and tight labor market in the 1990s would have meant a significant increase in the number of people with employer-sponsored health insurance. But you would be wrong, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
InternetNews November 9, 2010	What's Holding Back Wider Broadband Adoption? The government's Digital Nation II report is based on data collected from 54,000 households by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2009.
Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
Managed Care October 2001	Small businesses use aggressive tactics to keep benefit costs down Small and mid-sized employers (10-999 workers) saw average health-benefit-premium increases of 9.2 percent last year. Marsh Inc. reports that these companies aggressively blunted the effects of fast-rising health care costs...
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 October 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died As a whole, the plan unceremoniously crashed and burned. But it still frames state and national debate about health policy, thus affecting the evolution of managed care...
The Motley Fool February 11, 2009 Dayana Yochim	Don't Let a Disability Turn Into a Financial Disaster A short-term disability that turns into a long-term one can seriously sideline your finances. Supplemental coverage can save your savings from a big hit.
Salon.com May 30, 2001 Richard Rodriguez	Black and tan fantasy The Census says Hispanics are poised to outnumber blacks as America's largest "minority" -- but can Hispanics really be compared to African-Americans?
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.
American Family Physician March 15, 2004	Medicine and Society According to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau in September 2003, 1 43.6 million Americans did not have health insurance in 2002, a figure that represents an increase of 2.4 million persons from 2001
Salon.com March 16, 2001 Daryl Lindsey	Counting the mix With a surprising number of African-Americans identifying themselves as multiracial, the Census Bureau has some colorful math to do.
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
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 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 January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.
Investment Advisor November 2006	300 Million, and Changing The Census Bureau made the announcement on October 17 that the population of the United States crossed the 300 million threshold. The makeup of the population is changing, too.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006	Sales and Marketing: Where the Buck Stops Pharma's ultimate customer is the employer - the guy who pays the health plan's bill. Here's what he wants to know about drugs.
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...
Managed Care October 2002 MargaretAnn Cross	Tracking Disparities in Care Having employer-sponsored benefits does not guarantee good service. Differences in race, education, and income are also factors.
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.
InternetNews February 24, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Gov's E-Commerce Stats Surging The Census Bureau reported e-commerce sales outpaced retail sales growth.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Don't Quit Your Health Insurance Quitting a job can elevate you to new heights in your career. To keep from paying the price, however, you need to make sure you bring your health insurance with you.
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.
Entrepreneur March 2006 Chris Penttila	Healing Hands Here's how some states are easing the health-insurance burden.
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 May 2001 Cyril F. Chang	Covering Risk But Not Risky Behaviors A critical review of the arguments for insurance coverage for smoking-cessation therapies...
CIO November 1, 2000 Ben Worthen	The Greatest Project on Earth The Census Bureau used novel IT methods to defy the doomsayers and come in on time...
Managed Care November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
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 February 2001 Patrick Mullen	A Conversation with Rodney G. Hood, M.D. Unintentional bias can be just as damaging as the overt brand, according to the president of the National Medical Association...
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InternetNews May 20, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Retail E-Commerce Growth Outpacing The Pack The Census Bureau reports a 24% growth in e-commerce sales from last year.
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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.
Entrepreneur February 2005 Crystal Detamore-Rodman	At Your Service The U.S. Census Bureau's new quarterly survey of service-industry activity will give businesses information to monitor industry trends, make hiring decisions and develop immediate operational strategies.