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Milwaukee Business Journal
Oct. 25, 2012
"Aurora, [a network of hospitals and healthcare providers], cited three reasons for the change: (1) The cost of funding a pension plan is unpredictable because it is tied to economic and market factors.... (2) Pensions were designed for a different time, when employees generally stayed with an employer for 30 or 40 years. (3) An account-based plan ... is more popular with employees because it is more flexible for employees and helps Aurora be more competitive in recruiting and retaining employees."
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Milwaukee Business Journal
Jan. 29, 2013
"The site -- www.sba.gov/healthcare -- breaks down the key provisions, based on business size. It also provides links to other useful information for small companies, including a glossary of key health-care reform terms, an interactive time line with dates when certain reforms will be implemented and a state-by-state breakdown of health-care options."
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Milwaukee Business Journal
Apr. 8, 2013
"Augsburg Fortress Publishers will pay $4.5 million under a pending settlement to end a lawsuit over its failed pension plan. The settlement would pay about a quarter of the pension plan's benefits for almost 500 employees and retirees of the Minneapolis-based publishing arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) ... The lawsuit accused the publisher of allowing the plan to fail and not disclosing its troubled condition."
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Milwaukee Business Journal
Apr. 1, 2013
"One day in the hospital costs Americans $4,287 on average. In Australia, that stay costs an average of $1,472, and in France -- $853. A routine office visit in costs U.S. patients an average of $95 -- two and a half times more than in Chile, which had the second-highest cost for routine office visits.... The price for every service evaluated in the report costs more in the United States than anywhere else in the world. The only exception was for cataract surgery, which costs patients $922 in the United States, $1,311 in Australia and $1,048 in Chile."
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oct. 23, 2007
Excerpt: A group that includes executives from some of the country's largest corporations, including chief executives of Manpower and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., has concluded that the system of providing health insurance through employers is failing and must be scrapped. The Committee for Economic Development proposes replacing the current system with one that would provide universal coverage and remake the way health insurance is bought and sold.'
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