By Ilyse Wolens Schuman While the federal government remained on shutdown mode, the House Small Business Committee, Subcommittee on Health and Technology … Read more
Streamling Healthcare HR Is Most Popular Cost-Cutting Initiative
Cutting agency fees and saving on temps made the list of cost-savings initiatives being embraced this year and next by HR professionals in the healthcare … Read more
What Happens to COBRA When Obamacare Kicks In?
Health-law provisions taking effect next year could save U.S. employers billions of dollars in expenses now paid for workers who continue medical coverage … Read more
Yes, Most Employees Are Dumb When It Comes to Health Care
We are at a watershed moment in the history of employee health care in the United States. As Obamacare gets ready to go live on October 1, many companies … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Engagement Is Out; Now It’s Being Passionate That Counts
Lots gets written about employee engagement, and lots of it sounds the same, but two things are pretty clear: Organizations everywhere think employee … Read more
How Employee-Sponored Health Insurance Is Changing
United Parcel Service got attention by dropping some working spouses from its health plan and partly blaming the Affordable Care Act. But UPS’s move is … Read more
Beyond COBRA: Changing Insurance Options For Employees Leaving Jobs
Workers who lose their jobs and their employer-based health insurance will have new coverage options when the Affordable Care Act’s state … Read more
Survey: Economic Worries Driving Even More Temp, Part-Time Hiring
U.S. firms are shifting away from hiring full-time, permanent workers, as worries over the fragility of the economy and the looming implementation of the … Read more
The Affordable Care Act – Where Things Stand to Date
It seems like there is weekly news to report on the Affordable Care Act — generally about a provision being delayed, infrastructure that’s not quite ready … Read more
IRS Ruling on Health Care Law Has Implications For Same Sex Employees
This week’s announcement that the federal government will give the same tax treatment to legally married same-sex couples as they do to heterosexual … Read more