Category Archives: Healthcare Reform

Waiting Until 2020 For Actual Healthcare Change? Immediate Cost Reduction is Needed Today.

April 23, 2010 – 3:05 pm

Ask any employer who provides benefits what their biggest concern is for the company over the next few years and surely “controlling healthcare costs” will be mentioned. Now economic forecasters have come out publicly to state what most of us already knew – reform did nothing to help curb rising costs.

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Timely Perspective from Healthcare Interactive’s President

March 25, 2010 – 4:55 pm

Congratulations to Henry Cha, President of Healthcare Interactive, who delivered timely remarks at the Galen Institute conference, Intelligent Health, about how companies can cut healthcare costs without government action. Cha spoke about electronic health records and Web 2.0 technology, focusing on the new  healthcare performance management business model that incorporates social networking concepts to better [...]

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Who Has Control of Your Company’s Healthcare Expense?

November 25, 2009 – 3:28 pm

It’s open-enrollment time, which for many businesses mean an annual letter informing you that insurance premiums will go up 15% or more in 2010. The letter is quickly followed by lament and panic as you try to find a balance between what the business can afford and what will have to be deferred to employees. [...]

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Affordable Health Care – Age is Only a (Smaller) Number When You’re Well

November 12, 2009 – 5:31 pm

The healthcare bill’s passage through the House this past weekend progresses the country towards coverage of the uninsured. While it defines credits and penalties for businesses as it relates to providing healthcare benefits, it falls short on solutions for cost containment in the near and long-term. I was interested to read an article and subsequent [...]

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A Healthcare Bill Doesn’t Need to Pass to Control Costs

October 30, 2009 – 6:18 pm

The New York Times’ Prescription blog recently posted “How Will Health Care Bills Affect You? Do the Math.” The piece provides access to interactive calculators and charts that gives the individual consumer a sense for how the various bills in Congress might impact their wallets. I’m constantly amazed and dismayed at the lack of discussion around businesses [...]

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Healthcare Costs Should be Monitored and Managed Like Any Other Aspect of Business

October 21, 2009 – 7:49 am

Incredible efficiencies can be attributed to technology and processes, from Enterprise Resource Planning to Sales Force Automation, that is widely used to manage business operations. In this period of heightened scrutiny on healthcare accessibility and cost, it’s alarming that businesses are not taking or giving the reigns on their healthcare spend when it’s almost always among [...]

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In the Bipartisan Healthcare Discussion, What’s Missing?

October 13, 2009 – 12:36 pm

At The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and Better Health Care Together, a bipartisan healthcare forum held on September 9, 2009 attendees discussed some of today’s most pressing issues focusing largely on the agreement between business, labor and political leaders including Senator Tom Daschle and Senator Robert Dole on the continued debate over the nation’s health [...]

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The Real Healthcare Debate

October 12, 2009 – 9:18 am

The ongoing healthcare debate in America is loud, divisive, in-your-face—and not accomplishing anything.  While Congress debates the merits of a public option, the cold, hard fact is that no change will occur until 2014 at the earliest.  America needs healthcare reform now—and it starts with employers.  Employer premiums are skyrocketing with no sign of slowing [...]

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