Word: hiam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Peter Hiam, former commissioner of insurance ofMassachusetts and now a professor at the BostonUniversity School of Public Health, said heopposes Clinton's employment-based system...
According to Hiam, it was a historical accidentthat employers provide insurance. During World WarII, there were price controls and employers gaveout health benefits. Ever since, employers havesimply continued to provide benefits...
...Hiam is opposed to the employment-based systembecause it requires that each employer have anindividual insurance company, creating a "needlesscomplication...
...There is a reverential belief that during hard times, you can turn a company around, resuscitate its profitability and raise shareholder value by laying off workers," says Alexander Hiam, author of Closing the Quality Gap. "But that's a huge myth." For both individual companies and the economy as a whole, a true recovery may require dispelling that myth and focusing once again on real ways to increase performance and creativity...