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Chad Parks outlines four lessons he learned while filming his documentary about America's retirement crisis.

Along with tying your shoes and naming your colors, you learned to count in preschool. So, how hard can it be to count things in health data? It’s not hard, but your preschool strategies won’t give you the right answer.

Benefits broker and advisory firm Prescott Pailet sees the delay as an opportunity to give many of its clients room to breathe – especially those in the restaurant and hospitality industries, who would be most impacted by potential penalties.

Guest blogger Linda K. Riddell reviews Cracking Health Costs by Tom Emerick and Al Lewis.

Without taking a more aggressive approach to improving patient safety, any reform efforts, including the initiatives generated by the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act and multiple private sector projects, will be severely compromised.

According to a recent study from the University of London’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies, children whose mothers work during their early years do as well at school as those with stay-at-home moms.

There's a convergence of events and trends that will make or break the success of many employers’ benefit plans this year, suggests guest blogger Dani McCauley. However, a spot-on communications plan will smooth the road ahead, and can even turn risks into opportunities.

Communication of benefits isn't easy. It's one of the reasons we pay tribute to the best of internal communication of benefits every year with the i-COMM Awards. Here's how to enter.

For individuals to be informed consumers, they need to be able to compare prices for similar healthcare services. You can do this when you buy a car, or a house, or a pair of socks, but until recently it’s been almost impossible to compare prices for healthcare services. This is slowly changing.

In a recent survey, three-quarters of employees say they think their employer will educate them about changes to their health care coverage as a result of health care reform, yet only 13% of employers say educating employees about reform is important to their organization. This educational disconnect is troubling.