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Article: Health care costs, reform top of mind for BF&E attendees.(Health Care)(Conference notes)
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- Employee Benefit News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Byline: Kelley M. Butler
If not for a skyline featuring Coca-Cola headquarters and the CNN building, you might never know that EBN's 22nd annual Benefits Forum & Expo had been held in Atlanta. That's because the three-day event was saturated with discussions of health care reform proposals being discussed in Washington, D.C., and the impact approved legislation might have on benefits professionals nationwide.
Even one of the conference's keynote speakers, former Health Secretary Michael Leavitt, had Washington ties, and warned benefits pros of the dangers to their plans that lie underneath the legalese in H.R. 3200 (the working health care reform ...