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In part one of a two-part blog series Robert Winslow, principal of Elm Street Partners, blogs about some of the opportunity that the new health care legislation has brought upon. Do you agree with Winslow that there is an opportunity in all the changes? While its been nearly a year and a half since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Im frankly amazed at how many people still seem caught in
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LIMRA released its U.S. Individual Life Insurance Sales report, which indicates total individual life insurance new annualized premium increased 4% in the first half of 2011.
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(Reuters) Wed., Aug. 24, 2011 WASHINGTON Almost three-quarters of medium to big companies will keep offering health care benefits to employees once state-based insurance exchanges kick off in 2014, according to a survey by Towers Watson.
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EBay is recruiting an unlikely group of new entrepreneurs into its selling ranks the visually impaired. Blind citizens have staggeringly high rates of unemployment, with some 70% working-age, legally blind adults out of work, according to the National Federation of the Blind. So the online marketplace, in partnership with NFB, began recruiting test sellers in the blind community late last year. In February, it began a pilot program with
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[IMGCAP(1)] HONG KONG | Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:56am EDT (Reuters) - Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts warned on Friday.
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Creating a culture of health in the workplace isnt easy, but the results that can be obtained both a personal benefit to the individual and a cost and productivity benefit to the organization are making value-based health care an appealing initiative for employers across the country. VBHC is a holistic, consumer-centered approach that focuses not on the dollars being spent but on how the dollars being spent work to improve employees health. Recent focus
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The "eagerly-awaited" guidelines regarding the uniform summary of benefits and coverage (SBC) required by Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have finally been released. Comments are being invited until Oct. 21, 2011, with implementation anticipated by March 23, 2012, the two-year anniversary of PPACA's passage. This is not just the first step in the direction of increasing uniformity in the structure and communication of benefit plans.
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With the prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States nearly tripling over the past 30 years, now is the time for employers to take the lead in the battle against the growing problem of overweight and obese children, according to the National Business Group on Health. Obesity is a growing epidemic affecting children, their families and the nation. The United States currently has the highest percentage of overweight youth in its history. More than one-third
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Garden leave, a transitional period during which a terminating employee "is paid to remain at home and out of work, but to be on call to his or her former employer for as-needed transitional services. To me, this concept is wholly interesting and if I were in a position to choose, Id prefer it to phased retirement.
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New proposed rules for the "uniform summary of coverage" may change the way health insurers and group health plans provide consumers with clear, consistent and comparable information about their health plan benefits and coverage starting in 2012.
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