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That's one reason Maria Elena Click, 44, is willing to drive 40 miles from her job in Encinitas, in north San Diego County, to visit her Tijuana physician. She switched last year from Blue Cross of California to SIMNSA when her Blue Cross premium went up. She says her new cross-border plan is not only cheaper ($26 a month for herself and her teenage daughter, as opposed to the $170 she says she paid with Blue Cross), it's also friendlier. In the U.S., "they leave you waiting in the examining room a long time," Click said...
DARLING: As far as employers are concerned, we see no end in sight. In the prior five years, employers' share of health-care costs have been rising compared with consumers'. Employers will be increasing not only cost sharing in the premium paid each month but in every possible way, with either a co-payment or co-insurance...
...bills for health insurance, but about 90% of those costs are passed on to employees in the form of lower wages. We're concerned that employers are shifting those very obvious identifiable costs to their employees, but at the same time they're also shifting more of the direct premium costs to employees...
...Europe reporting losses, reduced payouts, layoffs, more than €5 billion in planned capital increases, denials of liquidity problems - and the replacement of half a dozen or so chief executives. The repercussions of the crisis currently shaking the insurance industry, which has a whopping €850 billion in annual premium income, are correspondingly huge. Yet the insurers' financial crisis is partly self-inflicted, and raises serious questions about the security of an industry whose very job is to manage and mitigate risk. How did insurers get into this mess? Holger Dock, the chief executive of AP Pension, a small Danish...
Theoretically, quality students improve the education for everyone at a college by adding their viewpoints and skills in class discussions, study groups and extracurricular activities. These students come at a premium, however, and colleges have to work to attract them...