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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.
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 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 August 2005	Who's Responsible For Controlling Costs? When it comes to controlling rising health care costs, consumers think the responsibility rests squarely on health insurance companies' shoulders, a new survey says.
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 2004	Employers see cost-shifting efforts pay off In the fall of 2002, as employers were getting their first 2003 rates from the health plans, they were looking at a 14-percent increase," says Blaine Bos, one of the study's authors. "Then they took out their scalpel.... In 2003, employers took back lost ground."
IndustryWeek September 22, 2010	The Return of the Raise Interest in retaining top talent drives growth.
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 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 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 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 December 2004	GM Blames Health Care Costs For Earnings Gap Employers are getting increasingly anxious to find some sort of solution to rising health care costs?
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.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2012 Morgan Housel	A Big Upgrade for America's Jobs Market Finally, good news.
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 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.
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 January 2004	Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs Employers are adopting disease management programs in a big way to slow the pace of health care premium increases, according to a survey of 3,000 businesses.
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 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...
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.
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 November 2002 Frank Diamond	Companies Leaning on Workers in Battle Against Pharmacy Costs A new urgency means that tiered formularies and higher copayments will become even more widespread, a recent survey indicates.
Job Journal June 2, 2013 John A. Challenger	Career Pros: Labor Shortage Looms While Millions Jobless How can we have staffing shortages when millions are unemployed? A multitude of mismatches are to blame.
Managed Care November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
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 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 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 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...
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 Jonathan Katz	Worksite Clinics Gain in Popularity In-house or near-site medical offices could reduce healthcare costs.
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...
Entrepreneur September 2006 Chris Penttila	Payback Time Think interns are free labor? That could be changing.
Managed Care November 2005	Large Employers Join To Create Mini-Med Benefits Six large employers have pooled resources to offer a low-cost, limited-benefit health plan for workers who would otherwise be uninsured.
Inc. September 2003 Alison Stein Wellner	A Small Price to Pay Long-term care coverage makes growing old a little bit easier.
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.
Investment Advisor January 27, 2011 Danielle Andrus	More Employers Offer Help Meeting Retirement Goals Automation, advice are popular ways to help employees with retirement saving.
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
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Take The Money And Don't Run Congress is paying companies to keep offering retiree drug coverage.
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 January 2006	Costs Slow Down, But Not Enough to Assuage Employers' Concern A new survey shows that health care costs for companies are increasing more slowly than in recent years.
BusinessWeek December 15, 2003 Howard Gleckman	Medicare's $86 Billion Band-Aid The subsidy won't stop many companies from scaling back retiree drug benefits.
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 2000	Big spread in management income Chief medical officers/ medical directors can get an idea of how well they are being compensated in relation to peers by looking at a recent survey conducted by William M. Mercer. Top earners can make as much as $457,000 per year in salary and other compensation...
Inc. October 2003 Alison Stein Wellner	Candidates' Take on Premiums A guide to the Democratic presidential candidates' proposals for making health insurance more affordable.
Managed Care April 2001	Employees' tolerance of change underestimated? Health care prognosticators have lately been predicting the coming of a defined-contribution payment system in which an employer would give an employee a voucher (or other stipend) and tell him to go find and purchase his own health care benefits. But employers are unlikely to switch...
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.
Job Journal September 25, 2005 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: When Jobs Outnumber Workers The US Department of Labor predicts a labor shortage by end of decade, but too many employers aren't heeding the message. Keeping valued workers may be their best strategy.
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...
Job Journal August 31, 2003 James Challenger	More Jobseekers Thinking Big The packages of perks at big companies can't be matched by most small firms.