Article: Employers plan to continue sponsoring health benefits. (Health Care a Feature Section).

Article: Employers to Continue Sponsoring Health Care Benefits, Using Web to Improve Delivery.
PR Newswire;  March 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ......purchasers of health care benefits for...Purchasing Value in Health Care Survey conducted...majority of employers plan to remain highly...part of their health care benefits strategy...evaluation of their health care benefits. We'...Costs Overall ...

Article: Open road ahead for consumer-driven health care; Employer interest in cost-saving options soaring, but complexity slows enrollment.(Spotlight: Year in Review--Employee Benefits)
Business Insurance;  December 26, 2005 ;     476 words ......Wojcik The consumer-driven health care movement continued to gain...many as half of large U.S. employers plan to offer high-deductible...their contributions to their health care costs; and whether employees...help them make the right health care decisions. While early ...

Article: Cost controllers meet goals; Successful companies attack health care costs: Survey.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
Business Insurance;  May 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......technology and information to make better health care choices. Almost three-quarters-72%-of successful employers directly manage their health care providers, such as doctors and hospitals...other employers that directly manage health care suppliers. The survey also ...

Article: Health Care Costs Could Spike In 2002.(Brief Article)
National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;  November 5, 2001 ;     409 words ......with double-digit health care cost increases...economy, skyrocketing health care costs and shrinking...Bruner, manager of health care management with Hewitt. Many employers will see a 16% rise in their health care bills, the largest...rate hikes many ...

Article: Report: Consumer-Directed Health Care Plans Not Likely to Lower Health Care Costs
U.S. Newswire;  August 19, 2004 ;     567 words ......YORK, Aug. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Consumer-directed health care (CDHC) -- high-deductible plans often touted as the answer to spiraling health care costs -- is not likely to curb health care costs, and could even worsen health outcomes by reducing...

Article: AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE: PROBLEM OR OPPORTUNITY?
The Journal Record;  July 19, 1990 ;     580 words ......can view it as an opportunity. It is health care, and how it can be made affordable...the consumer price index. Last year, health care costs jumped 8.5 percent, nearly double...almost always the same: The rise in health care costs leads the list. In a sense, the...

Article: Health Care Benefits Stay, Low Employee Costs Don't.(Brief Article)
HRMagazine;  April 1, 2001 ;     187 words ......economic downturn and the rising costs of health care benefits, most U.S. employers plan to continue purchasing these benefits...the Sixth Annual Purchasing Value in Health Care Survey conducted by Washington, D...Washington Business Group on Health and the Health care ...

Article: Employers not cutting plans; Survey looks at strategies.(health care benefit plans)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Business Insurance;  March 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Rising health care costs are...design of their health care benefit plans...for certain health care services...Purchasing Value in Health Care, 71% of employers...For 2001, health care premiums are...employers, 368 health care ...

Article: What are employers thinking? There is no health care crisis.
Employee Benefit News;  June 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......roundtable discussion about the health care crisis. I was struck by...Hewitt Associates, 82% of employers plan to increase retiree premiums...s be clear: There is no health care crisis in America. Absurd...crises. But the American health care system has been a ...

Article: Considering the exit ramp: Employers rethink offering health benefits; Most employers plan to keep offering health benefits, but surveys show a growing number are rethinking the issue as the economy continues to sour.(Health)
Employee Benefit Adviser;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......noise to an earnest conversation on health care reform. The recession, however, has...moving away from directly providing health care benefits, up from 4% in 2008, reports...enable them to discontinue offering health care benefits. Hewitt surveyed more than...

Article: Employer health costs worse than budgeted. (Focus: Health Care).
Westchester County Business Journal;  March 17, 2003 ;     601 words ......over the past few years, health care benefit costs escalated...surveyed reported their health care costs exceeded their budget in 2002. Furthermore, health care costs are expected to jump...participated in the survey. Health care costs are biting companies...Cotter, ...

Article: Health care debate off to `fact' start.(Editorial)
The Boston Herald;  February 2, 2005 ;     349 words ......about just who is using the state's health care safety net. Throwing a twist into the...spent some $52 million picking up the health care tab for thousands of employees from...Uncompensated Care Pool. Instead, the new health care report concludes there's one huge incentive...

Article: Health Care Lead Issue For Democrats in 2004.
Kiplinger Business Forecasts;  May 14, 2003 ;     599 words ...Byline:Martha Lynn Craver, Richard Sammon Health care has become the defining issue in the...Twice as many people are worried about health care costs as are concerned about job security...are eager to change the subject to health care. By doing so, they can argue that while...

Article: Employers 'vote' on health care platforms.(News)(Survey)
HRMagazine;  January 1, 2009 ;     328 words ......employers want to continue to provide M health care coverage yet oppose a government mandate...prefer a middle ground when it comes to health care proposals. A majority said they prefer a health care system that resembles what exists today...