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Health Care costs for Businesses

The Illogic of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Imagine yourself in a bar where a pickpocket takes money out of your wallet and with it buys you a glass of chardonnay. Although you would have preferred a pinot

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Self- Funding: Passport to Medical Tourism for US Employers

Most employers – even those confused about the legislative overhaul called Obamacare – understand that offering health insurance to their employees still makes good business sense. But, rising costs and

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Better healthcare for your employees AND lower costs

If you are feeling like most American business owners these days, the cost of healthcare for your employees is at or near the top of your list of primary concerns.

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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: Obamacare Is A ‘Net Positive’

Despite its disastrous rollout, Obamacare has been a good thing overall, according to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. “I think it’s a net positive,” Schultz said Tuesday of President Barack Obama’s

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Worth it or wasted: medical tourism

Most employers are already implementing a variety of strategies to contain health-care costs, such as restructuring benefits, establishing coverage tiers and opting for value-based purchasing or private health-insurance exchanges. CFOs

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New Hope for Health-Care Costs: Cash Pricing

Most employers are already implementing a variety of strategies to contain health-care costs, such as restructuring benefits, establishing coverage tiers and opting for value-based purchasing or private health-insurance exchanges. CFOs

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IRS may not approve health insurance strategy

When it came time to renew his company’s health plan last fall, Jerry Eledge found himself in a bind that many small-business owners know all too well. On one hand,

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Employers May Start Paying You To Buy Health Insurance

What if employers started giving workers a chunk of cash to buy health insurance on their own instead of offering them a chance to buy into the company plan? Are

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Why Employers Will Stop Offering Health Insurance

Here’s a prediction: By 2025, “fewer than 20 percent of workers in the private sector will receive traditional employer-sponsored health insurance.” The source of this claim? Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel,

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Will Your Employer Drop Coverage Under Obamacare?

President Obama speaks about Affordable Care Act in June. New analysis in the journal Health Affairs looks at the likelihood that companies will drop coverage after the full law takes

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