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"It's clear that the trend with workers for a lot of plans is spend more, get less," says Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the Senate Finance Committee who has pushed, so far unsuccessfully, for the reform bills in Congress to give employees and employers more...
"In the absence of significant reform, we will continue to see an erosion of the employer-based system. Smaller employers are dropping coverage altogether. The ones who are able to offer coverage are under greater and greater pressure. [In] the large-employer market, I see continued cost-shifting," says Tom...
In one respect, of course, employers are simply grappling with the rise in overall medical costs, which are growing at about three times the rate of inflation. But another, less talked about problem is that in recent years employers and employees have been passive consumers of health insurance. Many large...
It's easy to understand why Obama is promising to preserve the employer-based system even in the face of higher costs and fewer benefits. It could be political suicide to tell the millions of Americans who get insurance through their jobs the painful truth: under the reform proposals, even...
On the other hand, if you think the competition has been buried under layers of scandal and crass commercialism, you may have never been a fan of the torch relay - and you might be incensed to learn that its roots lie in Nazi Germany. Carl Diem, the...