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The BenefitsLink Newsletter This issue sponsored by Jones International University Would your company like to sponsor an issue? February 11 through 14, 2000 Top Stories - Retirement Plans Clinton's Proposed Retirement Accounts Would Aid Low-Income Families Philadelphia Inquirer [More like this] Click here! For online courses from Jones International University Top Stories - Health and Welfare Plans Witnesses and Testimony: Medical Errors Hearing Subcommittee on Health, House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee [More like this] Groups Say CBO Report Confirms High Price of Right-to-Sue Measure Medscape, free registration required [More like this] Conference Delayed on Patient Protection Bill Yahoo! News [More like this] Business Calls for Moratorium on Mandated Health Bills Health Care Journal [More like this] Ohio Physicians Seek Legislation to Speed Claims Payments Health Care Journal [More like this] Q's and A's: Filing the Form M-1 U.S. Department of Labor [More like this] MEWA Reporting Regulations U.S. Department of Labor -- Reporting requirement TEXT version Federal Register -- Reporting requirement PDF version Federal Register -- Civil penalties for failure to file TEXT version Federal Register -- Civil penalties for failure to file PDF version Federal Register -- Hearings re civil penalties TEXT version Federal Register -- Hearings re civil penalties PDF version Federal Register Work-Life Proponents Cheer, Businesses Jeer FMLA Reg Employee Benefit News [More like this] A. M. Best: HMOs Lose Ground To Preferred-Provider Organizations news.excite.com [More like this] Clinton Demands Coverage for All in Health-Care Bill Nando Times [More like this] HIPAA Rules Delayed Corbel [More like this] New Recommended Links About Employee Benefits How Liability Law Affects Medical Productivity National Bureau of Economic Research [More like this] Medical Liability, Managed Care, and Defensive Medicine National Bureau of Economic Research [More like this] Copyright 2000 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. Feel free to forward this email to friends, colleagues or clients, if no fee is paid to you and the email is forwarded in its entirety. Thanks! BenefitsLink is a trademark of BenefitsLink.com, Inc., published by Dave Baker with much help from Mary Hall and lots of friends. To subscribe (free): visit https://benefitslink.com/newsletter/ - or the person desiring to subscribe can send an email to listmanager@postmastergeneral.com, with this as the subject of the email: subscribe benefitslink We have an online archive of prior issues.

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