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New requirements on reporting healthcare costs on employees' W-2 forms may cause some employers to think of the W-2 as a replacement for a total compensation statement. Doing so, however, would be a mistake.
December 3, 2010
Will the recently passed healthcare reform law actually help to bring down costs? One recent study says that it will.
October 15, 2010
Today’s New York Times has an article discussing changes that employees should expect in their health insurance options during this year’s open enrollment season. While the article is generally informative, the author takes a moment to include a brief dig at employers: As in years past, employers will be rejiggering their plans with an eye […]
October 7, 2009
Patients can be better health care consumers if they're provided with good data and information.
October 2, 2009
Today’s recommendation is a relatively brief article that presents some great insights into the challenges of making consumer-driven health care a more central part of efforts to reform the health care system as a whole. The article, “Talk to the Invisible Hand” by Darshak Sanghavi, discusses the various reasons why the health care marketplace is […]
September 14, 2009
I’ve been thinking about corporate wellness programs of late, ever since reading an op-ed that appeared last week in the New York Times. The piece, “Big Food vs. Big Insurance” by Michael Pollan, brings a unique perspective to the continuing debate over health care reform by linking it to another important issue that, for the […]
August 31, 2009
Two companies provide examples of how offering high quality employee benefits can not only be the right thing to do as far as what's good for employees, but also the right thing to do for the company's bottom line.
August 27, 2009
My recommended reading for this weekend is an article by media executive David Goldhill that appears in the most recent edition of The Atlantic. The provocative title of the piece is How American Health Care Killed My Father. The editors of the magazine introduce the article as follows: After the needless death of his father, […]
July 31, 2009
Today’s Marketplace Scratch Pad blog points readers to an opinion piece in the Financial Times which I’m guessing will elicit some strong responses from at least some of the people who read this blog. Entitled “America’s healthcare should no longer be tied to jobs,” management consultant and author Matt Miller argues forcefully for the idea […]
July 17, 2009
Peter Singer's New York Times Magazine article, "Why We Must Ration Health Care," brings a nuanced, and sophisticated approach to the question of how we, as a society, decides what health care expenditures should be paid for from the public purse.
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January 10, 2012
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