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- Building on the Job-Based Health Care System: What Would It Take?
- The paper presents a blueprint for a reform, along with design choices and their implications, which would improve access, cost control, and quality. Requiring employers to provide coverage or at least to help workers obtain group insurance, combined with income-based premium subsidies, expanded public programs, and backup "insurance exchanges," would...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- Reviving Managed Care: Focused Medical Management (Finally) Pairs Quality Care With Measurable Cost Control
- This article describes about the year 2001 which was an ugly year for those trying to contain medical costs as a 12% inflation rate kept health plan executives up at night, swinging at demons. Some forecasters cannot see an end to the cost inflation. They point to a vicious whirlwind...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Cost Control Is Still Nowhere in Sight, Experts Say
- The Democratic proposals for controlling healthcare costs won't have much impact in the short term, experts say. Unless they can do something about spending, they will accomplish little. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Health Care Reform: Stop Focusing on the Cost
- Massachusetts? existing universal health care plan has become a prototype for current reform proposals now in Congress. But Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the program, says to make federal reform work, Congress needs to give up trying to control costs for now. ...
- Articles 2009-08-06
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- UK pharmaceutical sector ahead of US in IT investment; Research shows benefits in regulatory compliance, cost control and management.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 July 2005-LSCF: UK pharmaceutical sector ahead of US in IT investment; Research shows benefits in regulatory compliance, cost control and managementC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13072005 London: UK pharmaceutical companies are leading their US counterparts in IT investment, particularly to...
- Research articles 2005-07-13
- Food processing plants benefit from batch control
- A new study shows that batch processing manufacturers, including food plants will spend nearly $3 billion by 2003. As the demand increases for more automated batch systems and larger users drive innovation, food industry users are benefiting from technology transfer. The global batch processing market is growing faster than...
- Research articles 1999-10-01
- The Cutting Edge of Benefit-Cost Control
- The article gives the fact that Benefit costs are ripping a hole in the bottom line, and many employers do not see a way out. However, some executives find they can still achieve significant savings. With little or no revenue growth to cover these additional expenses, rising benefit costs are...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- BT and Cisco launch cloud-based IPT solution
- BT and Cisco have announced the launch of a global cloud-based Internet protocol telephony IPT solution from BT's Onevoice unified communications and collaboration UCC portfolio. Both companies have previously worked together and are now furthering this relationship through the launch of a scalable, business-grade, global hosted IPT service. BT and...
- News items 2009-12-13
- Performing a Cost/Benefit Analysis
- When you've put a lot of time and effort into developing an idea for a new project or initiative, you may be eager to get it approved and underway. Before you can get started, though, you must convince the decision-makers the project is worthwhile by determining its economic viability—which you...
- Articles 2007-10-29
- The Public Option And Insurance Exchange In The House Bill
- In my first post, I described the major features and basic approach of HR 3962, as well as the provisions of the bill that would go into effect more or less immediately. This post will look more closely at some of the bill's basic insurance reform elements. In a final...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Reducing and Managing Workplace Absenteeism
- Productivity loss due to absenteeism is a serious and growing challenge. In the United States, the annual cost to employers for time lost due to accidents is almost $100 billion, and other unscheduled worker absences costs even more. Absence management is a growing body of knowledge and experience that managers...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Environmental policy since Earth Day I: What do we know about the benefits and costs?
- Data on costs and benefits of the major environmental laws passed during the 1970s are reviewed. The winners in terms of benefit-cost analysis include: getting lead out of gasoline, controlling particulate air pollution, reducing the concentration of lead in drinking water, and the cleanup of hazardous waste sites with the...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Employee Benefits Administrator
- The Employee Benefits Administrator job description template includes the following job summary: Responsible for administration of employee benefits in all operations. As needed, provides special guidance and assistance to all locations on various employee benefit plans. Surveys industry and/or community to determine company's competitive position in employee benefits. Develops, recommends,...
- Tools & templates 2009-11-01
- Politicians Look To Legislation To Control Their Spending
- Various states as well as the Federal Government are running large deficits. In some of the states they at least pretend to balance the budget every year through tax increases, juggling spending and borrowing. The Federal level relies on borrowing which will reach a record this year especially...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- How CUs Can Use Pre-Funding Of Employee Benefits As Cost-Cutting Tool
- Pre-funding employee benefits is a relatively new concept, but one expert says it can help credit unions control costs. John Moreno is director of client services and marketing for Members Capital Advisors, the registered investment advisor affiliate of CUNA Mutual Group., which manages more than $14 billion in assets....
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- New and Innovative Plans Give Illinois Employers and Consumers Greater Responsibility, Guidance and Cost Savings in Health Coverage; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Launches BlueEdge Consumer-Directed Health Care Products
- CHICAGO -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois BCBSIL recently announced the addition of new and innovative products to its BlueEdge portfolio of consumer-directed health plans. The products are designed to give consumers greater choice and control in directing the health benefits provided by their employers, and to give...
- Research articles 2006-01-30
- Motorola Combines DSP with MCU Control Features - Product Announcement
- MOTOROLA INC. LAST WEEK launched its next family of DSPs, based on its venerable 56000 line. The new DSP56800E family is being marketed to engineers who need the performance of a DSP and the control functions of a microcontroller with the added benefits of cost-sensitivity, a one-chip solution and low...
- Research articles 2000-10-16
- Union Carbide continues to reap benefits from cost cutting
- Union Carbide has reported net sales of US$4.640 billion for 1993. Although this is slightly down on the figure for 1992 (US$4.872 billion), the firm's cost cutting efforts have resulted in an increased pre-tax profit (see Table 1). At the end of 1993, Union Carbide had...
- Research articles 1994-03-01
- Improved Air Quality in the Southeast for Pennies a Day: Federal Agencies Release Report on Benefits, Costs of SAMI Strategies
- CLINTON, Tenn., May 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Reducing air pollution could cost Southeast residents only three pennies a day according to a recent report from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Park Service, and U.S. Forest Service. The agencies examined the monetary benefits and costs of implementing emissions-control strategies developed by...
- Research articles 2002-05-09
- Health Savings Accounts: Are They the Proverbial Silver Bullet for Health Care Cost Control?
- The new health savings accounts HSAs, authorized in December by the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, have given employers a new platform from which to provide health care benefits. This article explains the key differences between the current health coverage models and the new HSA model....
- White papers 2004-04-01
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