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MISSING INGREDIENTS
What Health Care Reform Really Needs: Effective Wellness and Free-Market Competition
By Chandler J. Rapson
Commentary: Reform measures, as they are currently written, fail to address the core problems with the nation’s health care system: the growing prevalence and severity of chronic conditions that consume the majority of health care dollars and carrier monopolies that have stifled free-market competition.
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FEW DETAILS EMERGE
New Health Reform Amendment Could Siphon Employer Health Care Money
November 20, 2009 3:00 PM PT
Employees whose incomes are below 400 percent of the federal poverty level and whose premiums are between 8 and 9.8 percent of their total income would be allowed to buy insurance on a proposed health exchange with their employer’s money.
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NEW RULES PLANNED
Labor Department Kills Bush Administration Investment Advice Rule
November 20, 2009 8:00 AM PT
The Labor Department has killed a Bush administration rule that would have cleared the way for mutual fund companies to offer direct one-on-one investment advice through their affiliates to defined-contribution plan participants.
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The Business of Management
Workforce Management editor John Hollon analyzes and comments on business, management and the art of leading a workforce.
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WHITE PAPER: Best Practices in Compensation
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Wednesday, December 9
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This webcast is complimentary for Workforce.com members
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Featured keynote address: Keeping Up in a Down Economy
By Bob Nelson, PhD, best-selling author
and president, Nelson Motivation, Inc.
This exclusive conference will cover special benefit topics including “The Employers' Perspective on Health-Care Reform" by Andrew Webber, National Business Coalition on Health and “Getting on a Faster Track to Post-Recession Success with Commuter Benefits” by presenting sponsor, TransitChek.
Other conference topics include: employee engagement, workforce planning, compensation, rewards & recognition, technology, and more!
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Tools and Resources
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MetLife provides suggestions you can share with your employees to help them make important benefits decisions for themselves and their families.
The Wellness Council of America notes that November is American Diabetes Month, a good time for employers and employees alike to become aware of the toll that the disease takes.
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Eligibility audits could help companies spot areas of abuse concerning their insurance payments.
Avoid subjective criteria. Rely on objective measures built around your organization’s core values.
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Section: Building Engagement in an Economic Crisis
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these strategies to help your employees stay positive, calm and committed.
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Special Reports
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Recent health care contracts show how performance guarantees have evolved in recent years.
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