Big employers propose health benefits overhaul
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Some of the biggest U.S. employers said on Wednesday health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by competing third-party benefit administrators such as banks, investment companies and insurers.
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SEATTLE -- Seeking better health insurance coverage for themselves, workers at one of the nation&#39;s oldest health maintenance organizations are on strike.
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More employers are offering this helpful benefit.
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.
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The Mayo Clinic today called for every individual to have basic universal insurance as a step toward gradually replacing the current employer-based system.
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The system should be revamped to aid more workers displaced by a transforming economy, economists said as they released overhaul proposals.
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Big U.S. businesses will in general maintain retiree health benefits next year despite fears they would be cut to compensate for benefits to the elderly in the new Medicare law, a survey found.
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Many companies are dropping their promise of health benefits for future retirees, who now might have to stay on the job longer and rely on government health care in their old age.
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Online tools can help workers assess their planâs health.
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In the debate over what to do about the growing number of working people in the United States with little or no health insurance, no company may be taking more heat than the country&#39;s largest employer, Wal-Mart Stores.
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The insurance industry plans on Wednesday to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals obtain coverage.
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Changing benefits keep boomers working longer.
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A group of the nationâs largest for-profit hospital chains plan to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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Care offered to people with long term conditions such as asthma and diabetes to be overhauled.
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With soaring insurance costs squeezing workers and employers, votersâ choices this November may well be swayed by an issue that has great personal significance to Americans and their pocketbooks: health care.
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Five large companies said they will begin next year to provide their employees access to an electronic medical record system that will be used to help reduce the hefty costs of health care.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , AT&amp;T Inc., Intel Corp. , and Kelly Services Inc. joined forces with two labor unions in calling for an overhaul of the US healthcare system that would guarantee universal coverage by 2012.