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Employers embracing health cost reduction measures
With an anticipated 5% increase in benefits costs, companies are looking to revamp strategies and encourage programs that empower workers to be savvy healthcare consumers.
Employers embracing health cost reduction measures
With an anticipated 5% increase in benefits costs, companies are looking to revamp strategies and encourage programs that empower workers to be savvy healthcare consumers.
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Benefits Think Why most health plans strive to make healthcare cost more
The truth is that group plans typically earn a percentage of total expenditures, and it is in representatives’ best interest for medical services to cost as much as possible.
Brian Klepper
Worksite Health Advisors
Benefits Think 5 strategies that help employers reduce health-related risks and costs
Assessing and monitoring family history and lifestyle-based risk factors and giving employees access to experienced specialists are among the underused tactics companies should embrace.
Dr. Miles Varn
PinnacleCare
Republicans shellshocked by health defeat split on next steps
Republicans in Congress have been unable agree on a way to repeal and replace Obamacare – and now they’re divided on whether they should give up on their GOP-only approach.
Benefits Think 5 strategies that help employers reduce health-related risks and costs
Assessing and monitoring family history and lifestyle-based risk factors and giving employees access to experienced specialists are among the underused tactics companies should embrace.
Dr. Miles Varn
PinnacleCare
ACA repeal fails early in Senate healthcare debate
The Senate rejected a simple repeal of the ACA on Wednesday, still in the early stages of an unpredictable floor debate on healthcare amid significant doubts that Republicans can muster the 50 votes needed to pass any kind of bill.
Senate healthcare debate opens with rejection of McConnell plan
The Senate rejected Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s healthcare proposal late Tuesday at the start of several days of debate with no clear idea of what ACA-replacement plan the senators will ultimately be asked to pass.
Senate GOP votes to debate healthcare plan in hard-fought step
Senate Republicans agreed to begin floor debate on healthcare legislation, a hard-fought step amid uncertainty about exactly what plan senators will ultimately be asked to vote on.
Key GOP holdouts ready to back health debate despite uncertainty
Several key Republican holdouts on healthcare legislation said they will vote to begin debate Tuesday afternoon, even though senators don’t know exactly where the legislation will end up.
Senate GOP still not sure which healthcare plan they’ll push
Senate Republican leaders must decide which healthcare proposal they’ll ask members to vote on this week, in what has become a series of all-out efforts to get their own members on board.
GOP plans health vote with ‘no idea’ which bill it’ll consider
Next week could be a key test over whether Republicans have any chance at delivering on their seven years of promises of repealing and replacing the ACA.
GOP’s ACA repeal would cut insured by 32 million, CBO says
A Republican fallback plan to repeal all of the ACA without a replacement health program would lead to 32 million more people uninsured than under current law.
After GOP health plan collapse, what can employers expect next?
Even with the Republicans’ failed effort, there may be additional opportunities for relief from ACA requirements in the coming months.
GOP leaders brace for CBO estimate on revised health bill
Senate Republicans anxiously awaiting a key analysis of their revised health bill have more time to wait, and debate on the controversial measure that had been expected this week.
McConnell seeks to win over GOP holdouts with new health bill
Senate Republicans’ revised proposal to replace Obamacare would provide an added $70 billion to stabilize insurance exchanges over a decade compared with an earlier version.
How an ACA ‘repeal now, replace later’ strategy could benefit employers
Companies would welcome the elimination of 'costly and time consuming' provisions including the employer mandate, the Cadillac tax and reporting requirements.
Savings strategies to use if retiring early
Those leaving the workforce who want to maximize their nest egg should take advantage of the Rule 72(t) distributions.
