Recent Posts Tagged With 'benefits'

• Major Health Insurance Cost Development: Insurers Willing to Cease Health-Based Price Discrimination

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 21:44 in Health Insurance, healthcare, benefits, healthcare reform, low cost health insurance, health insurance cost, healthcare reforms

  A concession by a major health insurance trade group seems to be good news on the road to implementing badly-needed healthcare reforms and controlling health insurance costs. And that’s good news for employers. Health Insurance Cost for Indiv...

• Not Just a Bailout for the Rich; Mental Health Parity Law Comes Along for the Ride

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 22:17 in healthcare, benefits, discrimination (generally)

  Mental Health Parity Act: One of the “Sweeteners” Added to the Wall Street Bailout Bill Thanks to the mess on Wall Street, over a third of Americans will have better health insurance coverage for mental illness and addiction treatments b...

• Benefits Crippling Large and Small Businesses Alike

  Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 11:28 in Retirement, healthcare, benefits

  Two New York Times items today create a useful, if discouraging, overview of the way the American reliance on employers to provide health and pension benefits hurts our economy (and health). One explores how collectively-bargained benefit commitment...

• Four Supreme Court Employment Decisions in One Day!

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 22:58 in Retirement, supreme court, unions, benefits, age discrimination, discrimination proof and evidence

  Score that employees 2, employers 2. High Court rules: disability retirement program did not discriminate on age; employer has burden of proving reasonable factor other than age in age discrimination disparate impact cases; insurer conflict of inter...

• 2008 Workworld Forecasts: Looking into the Crystal Ball, Part I — Big Picture Trends

  Posted on Wednesday January 9th, 2008 at 23:32 in human resources, benefits, workforce trends, career and job search

  An effort to summarize 2008 workplace trend forecasts from a number of sources and assemble them in one place for quick comparison, followed by a few humble thoughts of my own. ...

• Hospital Comparison Tool May Lead to More Affordable Healthcare

  Posted on Monday July 2nd, 2007 at 23:26 in healthcare, benefits

  In my humble opinion, the health insurance crisis in the U.S. has many causes, and the “solution” is a puzzle with many pieces. I am extremely leery of solutions that merely shift costs (such as to a single government payer), without doi...