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Welcome to the very first Employee Benefits Blog Carnival!
After health care reform, employee benefits move to center stage as one of the most important issues facing Americans.
So, what are employers, insurers and the government really doing to rein in health care costs, get their employees to live healthier lives, and improve health care quality?
The Benefits Package is the first-ever blog carnival dedicated to these issues. With benefits executives starting to make the leap into the blogosphere, “The Benefits Package” will highlight the best insights and opinions on this important subject. You will discover new blogs, learn new things, and hopefully think about issues a little bit differently.
I’ll host the first couple of Benefits Packages, and then others will take their turn.
Below you’ll find a terrific set of posts by some true thought leaders. If you like what you see, next time, please submit a post of your own.
Enjoy the first Benefits Package!
At the Health Business Blog, David Williams explains
why mini-med plans aren’t as bad as some people would have you believe.
At Hank Stern’s Insure Blog, Mike Feehan explains how the federal government makes private coverage more expensive in a way that makes
its own coverage cheaper.
Jen Benz of the Benz Communications Blog, and a fellow blogger on www.cdhcsolutionsmag.com, explains that companies who fail to put their benefits information online are
making a big mistake.
The Healthcare Economist summarizes a comprehensive study of one of the hot trends employers are looking at –
paying doctors more for delivering higher quality care.
Providers’ power to drive the health care costs paid by employers and insurers is as great as it has ever been – and, according to Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters,
it’s only getting worse.
David Harlow at the famous Healthblawg sounds a similar theme, building off of the
lessons of health care reform in Massachusetts.
Dan Buckle, the Group Guy, says that employers
need to face the fact that their employees’ “well-being” may be the most important factor in their health care costs – and productivity.
Employers are getting tired of using “carrots” to get their employees to live healthier lives – and are
starting to use “sticks” — writes David Kerrigan of the Reflexion Healthcare Blog.
Who has control of your company’s health care expenses? Keith Lemer at Susan Lackey’s
Take Control Now blog talks about open enrollment season, and what it means for controlling health care costs.
George Van Antwerp of Enabling Health Decisions
scores an interview with the Chief Technology Officer of HHS about how the government is going to use technology to make health care easier for Americans to access.
Former Hospital CEO Mike Stephens from Jennifer Mitchell’s Action for Better Healthcare Blog interviews a senior executive at a newly-forming Accountable Care Organization.
Are ACOs a fad?
At MD Whistleblower, Dr. Michael Kirsch says that
Americans are worried about how their benefits will be changed by reform, and it’s why the recent elections turned out the way they did.