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January 2, 2003 - 8,030 subscribers
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Business Groups See Hospital Quality Reports As 'First Step'
Excerpt: "Business groups applauded an initiative by hospitals to begin reporting their performance on key quality measures, but cautioned that much more needs to be done to address medical errors. These mistakes not only cost thousands of lives a year, they also add millions of dollars to health-care expenditures." (Puget Sound Business Journal via bizjournals.com)
Healthcare Insurers' Profits Up
Excerpt: "For investors, the good news is that the trend is expected to continue this year. The bad news for consumers is that the healthy profits are driven in large part by higher health insurance premiums. In 2002, most health insurers were able to boost profits by raising premiums higher than the rate of medical inflation for the third year in a row." (USA Today)
Position Paper: Six Questions Everyone Should Ask About Health System Reform (PDF)
25 pages; subtitled, "An Application of Basic Economics." Originally published March 2002. Excerpt: "The possible solutions must make the health system stable, efficient, and responsive to consumer demand, as well as allocating scarce resources to meet competing demands." (Galen Institute)
Position Paper: Archer MSAs-- a Good Beginning, a Better Future (PDF)
Excerpt: "HIPAA's unreasonable and burdensome restrictions on Medical Savings Accounts-- a result of political tradeoffs to move the legislation forward-- have limited their availability and appeal. For example, only self-employed individuals or small employers are permitted to establish tax-free MSAs under HIPAA." (Council for Affordable Health Insurance)
Links to Items on Executive Comp, Benefits in General
California Employee Compensation and Benefits Law Developments
Click on headline on the target page: "California Employee Compensation and Benefits Law Developments." 4 pages. (Pillsbury Winthrop LLP)
FASB Ruling on Options Coming This Quarter
Excerpt: "The Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to decide in the first quarter whether to change rules that allow U.S. companies to avoid treating stock options as a compensation expense." (Washington Post)
Newly Posted or Renewed Job Openings
Pension Consultants/Administrators; F/T & P/T
for Northern NJ Mid-Size Pension Consulting Firm
in NJ, NY
Employee Benefits Attorney
for Employee Benefits Institute of America LLC (EBIA)
in WA
Newly Posted Conferences
(Post Yours!)
11th Annual National Health Benefits Conference In Sarasota, FL
in FL
April 24, 2003
Employers Health Conferences
Ninth International Conference
in CA
June 2, 2003
International Pension & Employee Benefit Lawyers Association
Newly Posted Press Releases
(Post Yours!)
Willis Acquires Sunaro, Strengthening Employee Benefits Practice
(Willis)
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