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Looks like the folks at AHIP wont be on Ron Pollacks holiday card list. After AHIP President Karen Ignagni released a statement in the wake of the Senate Finance Committees vote on health care reform legislation, Pollack, executive director of the consumer health organization Families USA, fired back.
October 15
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Friday (Oct. 16) is National Bosses Day. As a boss myself, Id like to pass along a little unsolicited advice: Everything I need to know about being a boss, I learned in kindergarten.
October 14 -
I’ve never met Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, personally, but I’d like to. It can’t be easy to be the public face of the health insurance industry — a group notoriously vilified and distrusted by the public — and have to dance on the tripwire of appealing to consumers, Congress and carriers when it comes to health care reform.
October 14 -
Heres some recession news that can hurt your bottom line as much as declining profits: Even if companies havent literally lost their employees, many have lost them psychologically, says Jon Gordon, author of The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change.
October 13 -
I’ve worked hard to keep this blog balanced, keeping my personal politics and preferences to myself and presenting alternate points of view on issues – particularly when it comes to health care reform. So, when I offer up news of NYC protesters who staged a sit-in at an Aetna office to advocate a single-payer health care system, I want to offer up news today from the other side of the spectrum.
October 13 -
... To remind you of the importance of complying with USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994). Or, take whatever money you have in your wallet and throw it in the trash, as a reminder of the consequences if you don't comply. In this month's EBN, contributors David Henderson and Matthew Ritchie details several cautionary tales from employers who were taken to court for USERRA violations, and one particular case this year that
October 8 -
Employees are notorious for only spending a few minutes making their annual benefits selections, but you may want to communicate to them that this is definitely not the year to gloss over such choices.
October 8 -
Clearly, target-date funds are the persona non grata of the retirement plan these days, with their abysmal 2008 performance sparking federal hearings on whether the funds needed tighter regulation.
October 7 -
If your company sponsors a pension plan, I don’t envy you. You’re sponsoring defined benefit plans, trying to maintain a benefit they believe is best for their workers — against some daunting financial and administrative odds. And the hits just keep on coming. Despite recent increases in asset values and regulatory relief from the IRS, employers will be required to contribute $89 billion (yep, with a ‘b’) to their DB plans in 2010 and more than
October 7 -
In keeping with my long-standing commitment to leave legal stuff to lawyers, I offer you todays tip from Llyod Aubry Jr. and Armilla Staley-Ngomo, two employment attorneys at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. I dont know them personally, but it sounds like they know their stuff; Aubry formerly served as special assistant and counsel to the Secretary of Labor.
October 6