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What may accelerate the trend is that some pioneering U.S. corporations, swamped by rising health-care costs, are taking a serious look at medical outsourcing. Blue Ridge Paper Products of Canton, N.C., a manufacturing company, may soon offer employees outsourcing as a health-care option. The carrot? The patient would get to pocket some of the firm's substantial savings...
...form of coverage called a mini--medical plan, this month began promoting Bumrungrad Hospital as a preferred provider to its customers. Employees of self-insured businesses who use the more conventional plans designed by UGP will also have access to the Thai hospital. This means that UGP offers the option of partly or fully covered medical tourism to some 100,000 people, including those who could use it most...
...when its employees bought a few factories that were scheduled to close. But health-care costs are hurting the company. So a Blue Ridge team plans to visit hospitals in India to assess their quality of care. If it gives the green light, Blue Ridge will begin promoting the option to its 2,000 workers...
...Like most technologically savvy music lovers, I'm a dedicated iTunes customer and an iPod addict. But iTunes has yet to offer the tasting-menu option known as subscription downloads, that allows you to download all you want for a monthly fee, keeping the songs playable as long as you remain a subscriber. Last year, subscription-content privileges were extended to portable devices, but Apple still had no reason to fear: the software-and-player combinations paled in comparison to the iTunes/iPod powerhouse. While this remains mostly true, Urge is the best reason to date why Apple should avoid resting...
...therapist about her increasingly strong urge to kill herself, Giedinghagen received an ultimatum from the school she loved so much: she had to get better or she would have to leave. So she did what any crafty 20-year-old would do. She tried to carve out a third option--feigning improvement by, as she put it, acting "as normal as I could." When she agreed to spend her winter break at a psychiatric hospital, the university stopped threatening to kick her out. But afterward, says Giedinghagen, "I felt like I had to hide how I was doing from...