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...payoff for employers? Virgin HealthMiles CEO Chris Boyce says he has seen his company's programs, at about $2.50 a month per employee, cut health-care claims to as much as one-sixth their cost. On average, according to a nonprofit research group called the Wellness Councils of America, for every dollar that a company spends on helping employees get healthier, it can expect to save $3 in health-care expenses. On top of that, an article in last month's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine says every dollar in medical and pharmacy expenses that companies pay is dwarfed...
...Medical errors are expensive, and most of the costs of medical errors actually affect people after they leave the hospital," says Nuckols, who is also a health-services researcher for the Rand Corp., the nonprofit health-research group that sponsored the study. "If the recommendations do succeed at reducing medical errors, there could be some cost offsets...
...launched a website to share those changes and provide contacts for questions or more information. The website will be the portal for the reporting of further progress and the collecting of broad community input. These recently announced changes to programs and services were the result of a cost-saving effort involving all units of FAS, launched as we began the process of budgeting for fiscal year...
...instance, impose a requirement that employers provide coverage to their workers or that individuals who do not get health benefits at work buy them on their own. The tax credits that it provides - $2,300 for individuals and $5,700 for families - fall well short of the average annual cost of a health policy, which is between $10,000 and $12,000 per family, says Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard University School of Public Health...
Coburn, a practicing physician, disputes Blendon's analysis of his bill. "In the vast majority of cases, our credit will more than cover an employee's share of a health plan's cost, which is about a third of a plan's total cost, or $4,000," Coburn says. The plan would also aim to move people off of medicaid, giving low-income Americans subisidies to purchase their own coverage. "The people who will benefit the most are the people who need help the most - low-income families and the unemployed. If you don't have...