19 ordspråk av Paul Fronstin
Paul Fronstin
Employers are desperate to do something about health care costs, and most will move in this direction.
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If workers are going to use the services, it's going to cost them more money.
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Insurance companies are consolidating because they are finding it tough to continue to keep low for their membership,
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It doesn't look hopeful. It's a massive problem especially in light of what happens to Medicare over the next 14 years.
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It was easy to offer these things 40 years ago because they were cheap. They're not cheap anymore.
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It's all about affordability, ... Health care costs ... will continue to have an impact, even if the economy strengthens.
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It's all about affordability. Health care costs ... will continue to have an impact, even if the economy strengthens.
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It's significant when you have an employer like GM making this kind of move. It could trigger more of the same from other employers,
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People make the assumption that their cost of living will go down when they retire, but if you have a lot of health care issues, your cost of living could go up.
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Rising health-care costs are pushing more people into public coverage from private coverage. I don't know how long that can last.
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The whole idea of moving from group-based insurance is not inconsistent with [Bush's] view of how the world should be, and we saw that with the debate on Social Security: individual accounts with more individual responsibility.
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There have been similar findings with regard to diabetes care. When Pitney Bowes lowered costs for diabetes and asthma medications, they found that overall costs went down and compliance went up.
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These are a sign of how desperate we've become.
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They could ask their families, their friends, their doctor. They could also check with the National Committee for Quality Assurance , which has a ranking of health care plans.
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They're seeing it as an investment with a cost, ... but an investment they expect to get a return on. All this is happening while healthcare-cost inflation is back and pushing 10 percent.
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