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IndyStar.com
June 4, 2012
"All federal workers, elected and unelected, enjoy retirement benefits better than the bulk of the private sector, including continuation in a relatively low-cost health-care plan. Ex-senators and representatives do especially well, even after reforms in the 1980s mandated them to pay into Social Security, among other tightening. Now, Congress is busy trying to bring federal workers' retirement contributions and benefits more in line with the private sector, a change that is warranted financially and useful politically even if it does bring some pain."
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IndyStar.com
Nov. 12, 2008
Excerpt: WellPoint is testing the concept of arranging and paying for you and a companion to travel to India for a joint-replacement procedure that could cost a fraction of what it would at your local hospital. Think of it as a form of medical outsourcing. Indianapolis-based health insurance giant WellPoint is jumping into the emerging world of 'medical tourism' -- the practice in which U.S. patients cross international borders in search of cheaper medical care.
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IndyStar.com
Feb. 1, 2008
Excerpt: [T]he majority of those who care for an elderly family member are also full-time employees -- about 25 percent of the U.S. work force.The total estimated annual cost to employers of full-time workers with intense care-giving responsibilities is $33.6 billion, according to a MetLife Care-giving Cost Study. The average cost per employee is $2,441 -- because of lost productivity.
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IndyStar.com
Nov. 5, 2007
Excerpt: Clarian Health apparently has decided the punitive approach may not be the best way to motivate employees to shape up. The Indianapolis hospital system has abruptly ended a plan -- which Clarian had touted on national TV just months before -- to dock workers up to $30 out of their paychecks every two weeks if they did not control certain risk factors such as body-mass index, high cholesterol and high blood sugar.
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IndyStar.com
Nov. 29, 2006
Excerpt: [U]ntil recently, the perks, including lifetime health insurance and extraordinary pension benefits, were well beyond what most private sector employees could expect. The House has dropped the heavily subsidized health-care perk, and the Senate is in the process of eliminating it. The generous retirement benefit remains.
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Wall Street Journal in IndyStar.com
Nov. 28, 2005
Excerpt: Despite a broad trend to simplify offerings in 401(k) plans, a number of large companies are giving their employees more complex options through brokerage and mutual-fund windows.
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