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CBS MoneyWatch
Oct. 1, 2012
An "Issue Brief" prepared by CBS News. Excerpt: "Health care is expensive and getting more so, squeezing private enterprise and driving up the deficit. Millions of Americans are uninsured which leads to bankruptcies and anxiety. [The challenge is how] to lower costs and expand coverage without a drop in quality."
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CBS MoneyWatch
Dec. 5, 2022
"Two versions of the new strategy are in play.... In one approach, insurers or employers continue to cover the drugs but designate them as 'nonessential,' which allows the health plans to bypass annual limits set by the [ACA] on how much patients can pay in out-of-pocket costs for drugs.... In the other approach, employers ... simply drop coverage for specific drugs or classes of drugs. Then, the outside vendor helps patients provide the financial and other information needed to apply for free medication from drugmakers through charity programs intended for uninsured patients."
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CBS MoneyWatch
July 11, 2022
"Calling for more 'transparency' in prescription-drug costs, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday issued an executive order designed to increase scrutiny of pharmacy benefit managers. The executive order, in part, will require audits of pharmacy benefit managers that provide services in the state's Medicaid managed-care program and the state-employee health insurance program."
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CBS MoneyWatch
Jan. 11, 2017
"If you're an American retiree worried about outliving your savings, you may have an (unwanted) edge compared to retirees in other countries: U.S. retirees are expected to live shorter lives on average compared to citizens of most other developed nations.... [T]he U.S. ranks last or near last -- depending on the group being analyzed -- in one measure of life expectancy ... remaining life expectancy at age 65."
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CBS MoneyWatch
Jan. 4, 2017
"Prescription drug costs for Americans under 65 years old are projected to jump 11.6 percent in 2017, or at a quicker pace than the 11.3 percent price increase in 2016 ... Older Americans won't get much of a break: Their drug costs are projected to rise 9.9 percent next year, compared with 10.9 percent in 2016. By comparison, wages are expected to rise just 2.5 percent in 2017."
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CBS MoneyWatch
Jan. 3, 2017
"More than one-third of boomers (39 percent) envision a gradual glide out of the workforce ... Almost three-fourths of workers (72 percent) said their employer is supportive of employees working past age 65. But when asked about specific policies that would enable continued work, the frequencies were much lower: 20 percent of employers will accommodate flexible work arrangements and schedules; 20 percent would enable workers to shift from full-time to part-time; 12 percent let employees take positions that are less stressful or demanding; 9 percent provide information about 'encore' career opportunities."
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CBS MoneyWatch
Aug. 16, 2016
"Although the number of employers adopting private exchanges jumped 35 percent in the 2016 plan year (on top of a 100 percent jump in 2015) only 3 percent of all U.S. employers use an exchange. Employers may be slow to jump on the bandwagon because they don't know about this new structure, or they may not be convinced it will lower costs."
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CBS MoneyWatch
July 26, 2016
"Employees of large companies may have the most to gain from the blocked mergers, explained Gary Claxton, vice president of Kaiser Family Foundation. There are a lot of regional and small insurers that offer employer-sponsored insurance but only the big insurers have large national networks the likes of which giant corporations usually hire. The mergers would mean these employers would have even fewer choices and that would likely translate into fewer plan choices for employees."
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CBS MoneyWatch
Jan. 10, 2016
"86 percent of U.S. employees are above normal weight or have a chronic health condition, and ... they miss an estimated 450 million extra days of work a year compared with healthy workers. This costs American businesses from $150 billion to a little more than $225 billion in lost productivity ... A chief health officer would be an uncomplicated solution ... to not only help keep workers healthy, but improve the company's bottom line."
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CBS MoneyWatch
Jan. 28, 2015
"In 2014, state teacher pension systems had a total of $499 billion in unfunded liabilities, which has risen $100 billion in just two years, according to a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality, a nonpartisan research and policy group dedicated to restructuring the teaching profession. The report card on teacher pensions found that 70 cents of every dollar contributed to state pension systems pays for this massive debt rather than covering current employees' future retirement benefits."
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