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Yes, I do think Sebelius is a good pick to lead HHS. Way back last year, I was hoping that she would be Barack's VP, so I'm happy to see her be appointed to such an important post.

In my opinion she is "qualified" because of her state administrative and health insurance background. Whether she will be effective is another question. I would hope that she avoid the "rush" to push everyone into a new system but, instead, apply relevant data, varied expert opinions, and prudence to...

I don't believe the issue is going to be that employees will have to obtain their own benefits. I think the issue is going to be that, potentially, the government is going to step in as a benefits provider, especially in healthcare.

I spent Employee Benefits day working on employee benefits. Yea!

Kelly, The crickets on the comments tell the story I guess...

Unfortunately, not necessarily. But we'll see.

This article is bad. It doesn't tell you anything and I have had to click through twice to find out it had no content and was led to click again to listen to a podcast. Thanks but no thanks!

I agree with Helen´s assessment on health & welfare outsourcing deals for first timers, it will be more difficult to justify outsourcing. However we are seeing an increase in the number of companies who have already outsourced going back to market to see if they can improve service levels (or maintaining...

We are seeing more activity to recompete currently outsourced deals and less initiative to outsource for the first time. I'd also say that, surprisingly, some larger organizations that outsourced functions years ago are revisiting the business case and evaluating insourcing those functions.

You should check the settlement terms and you will find the AWP adjustment applies to about 1442 NDCs. FDB and Medi-Span independent of the settlement announced they will adjust AWPs for all other NDCs who's markup is greater than 1.20 (about 15-20K NDCs).