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...While wellness is an admirable goal, the more likely path for both industry and government - both under siege - is tighter allocation of healthcare benefits. In the Towers Perrin survey, for example, many companies report that they are taking steps to tighten provisions on their prescription drug plans, increase employee cost sharing, and tighten or increase enforcement of dependent-eligibility provisions. Employee wellness is on the program too, but it's part of a comprehensive effort that includes some not-so-gentle tweaks to the system...
...Similarly, Washington is smart to pursue the nearly free lunch that wellness and prevention can provide, but that leaves a lot of medical expense still on the table. For real cost containment to occur there will likely need to be difficult choices made in areas such as end-of-life care, which currently consumes an outsize share of Medicare's budget. It's not politically palatable, but as companies are discovering, healthcare-cost containment is not a job that wins friends...
...accept the results of the report, anyone looking at it would have to believe that the trustees have the capacity to have an accurate picture of the economy seventy-five years from now. One of the critical assumptions of the report is that "In 2083, the combined cost of the programs would represent 17.2 percent...
...courtyard, which housed said open bar, a handful of small dining tables, and a light jazz band that made up for not being good by…well, just being there. (The swing-dancing couples didn’t seem to care who was playing, anyway.) And while some cost-cutting measures were evident—note to Lev HoCo: FlyBy could recognize that second-rate HUDS hummus and tabouli anywhere—the 510 students who purchased tickets got to experience something entirely new: for one night, at least, Leverett was cool...
...According to Harvard University Dining Services Executive Director Ted A. Meyer, about 30 percent of students eat breakfast, and the elimination of hot breakfast will save the University $900,000, primarily through the cost of labor...