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Employer Health Coverage: Dropout or Reinvent
By Mike Coyne, President, Verisk Health
Health care spending in the United States has reached unprecedented proportions, threatening to further derail financial stability and impede economic recovery. Today, employers who provide insurance coverage to more than 157 million people sustain much of that burden. (more)

Employers – Considering a High-deductible Plan? Five Things to Consider
By Stephanie Ward, RHU, REBC, Vice President, Corporate Synergies Group
According to Trends and Tradeoffs in Employee Medical Benefits, a survey conducted by Corporate Synergies Group and the Financial Executive Research Foundation, 37 percent of businesses that don't currently offer high-deductible plans with health savings accounts (HSAs) are eyeing them for potential cost savings. So for employers considering high deductible plans, below are five things to keep in mind. (more)

HRAs - The Wrong Arrangement, Employers Stop Giving Your Money Away
By Lisa Holland, RN, MBA and Gregory J. Hummer, M.D.
While employers continue to aggressively adopt HDHP as a savings mechanism to achieve health care affordability, they also continue to implement health risk arrangements (HRAs) which add little value to the employee-employer relationship and does not support the fundamental idea of consumerism i.e. the member should have significant "skin in the game."(more)

Health Reform Navigator Provides Answers
Ronald E. Bachman FSA, MAAA, president & CEO of Healthcare Visions
The Health Reform Navigator helps insurance brokers answer client questions and benefit managers to quickly respond to issues about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obama Care). (more)

Looking for Innovative Health & Benefit Superstars!
By Todd Callahan, managing editor FieldMedia
Is there someone in your office who goes that extra mile? They come in early, stay late, excel under pressure, quick thinkers, and true problem solvers in the area of health care consumerism. Or do you know an employer, broker, consultant or solutions provider, who is a creative and innovative problem solver in health and benefits? (more)