BenefitsLink Health & Welfare Plans Newsletter
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Single-Payer Health Care: Vermont Takes Lead
"Vermont still has 'a few challenges' ahead to meet its goal of a universal health care system this decade, Gov. Peter Shumlin said Thursday as he signed into law the bill designed to make the state the nation's first with fully publicly funded health care. . . . Among Vermont's challenges: getting waivers from the federal government . . ."
(Christian Science Monitor)
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Employer Self-Insurance Decisions and the Implications of the ACA
"[O]ur microsimulation analysis predicts a sizable increase in self-insurance only if comprehensive stop-loss policies become widely available after the ACA takes full effect and the expected cost of self-insuring with stop-loss is comparable to the cost of being fully insured in a market without rating regulations."
(RAND)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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An In-Depth Look Into Intergenerational Flows
"The goal of this paper is to carefully document the characteristics of within-family monetary transfers in the United States, using all nine waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)."
(Center for Retirement Research at Boston College)
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Unpaid Life Insurance and Annuity Benefits' Issues Continue to Intensify
"Attention to unclaimed property issues affecting life insurance companies . . . has significantly escalated in recent weeks, due to regulatory actions, media coverage, and public expressions of interest by the plaintiffs' bar. This Legal Alert discusses those developments and puts them into perspective."
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