Healthcare Costs Could Bankrupt America
The cost of health care will eventually bankrupt the United States unless our State and Federal politicians find the courage to prevent
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Current Issue Artciles
Column
Lindsay Resnick: Shift Happens: Healthcare’s Ecosystem In Turmoil
Donna Haybarger: Employee Wellness Programs for a More Productive Workforce
Rajeev Mudumba: Wellness: It is not just about Health!
Shaun Snyder: Summary Plan Descriptions: More Value Than You May Think
Voluntary Benefits
John T. Harmeling: Dental Insurance: It’s More Than a Nice-to-Have
Robin Gelburd: Seven Must-Knows about Dental Plans
Self Funding
Shaun Snyder: Summary Plan Descriptions: More Value Than You May Think
Shaun Snyder: The New Self-Funding Option: Ultra-Small Group
Corporate Wellness
Corporate Wellness Magazine: Premier Leadership Awards Profile
Donna Haybarger: Employee Wellness Programs for a More Productive Workforce
Dr. Laura Clapper: Peer Support and Gaming Encourages Healthy Behavior and Creates a Culture of Health
Rajeev Mudumba: Wellness: It is not just about Health!
Rob Danoff, DO: Pain & Productivity in Today’s Workplace
Jacquelyn Ferguson, M.S.: Managing stress is especially important for those with cancer
Michael Shaw: DHA and a Healthy Workforce
Jeff Gero, Ph.D: Do Meditators Make Better Leaders?
Richard Lennox, Ph.D. David A. Sharar, Ph.D.: A Measure of Success: A Checkup for Your EAP and Health and Wellness Programs
Jennifer Patel: Making Healthy Choices Is As Close As Your Desk Drawer
Rod Sims : A Failure to Communicate: How Cultural Incompetence Leaves Many Wellness Programs Incomplete
Column
Oral Health Is Health!
The mouth is the window into the health of the body just as the eyes are the window into the soul. Infection and bacteria in the mouth
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Seven Steps to Solve Our Nation’s Healthcare Crisis
Where did we go so wrong? How did we allow Obamacare to pass? How did we allow politicians to pass legislation that was marketed as healthcare
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The ABCs of ACOs: How Technology Can Help Make It Happen
In recent years, the United States has faced an escalating crisis of out-of-control growth in healthcare costs. While we are spending far more than
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How Governments and Unions Can Protect Their Healthcare Coverage While Reducing Taxpayer Costs
The severity of the healthcare cost and wellness crisis faced by state and local governments is beyond the pale
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Software’s Role in Economically Staffing Employee Benefit Meetings
For years there has been a need for carriers to staff thousands of meetings each year with either their own staff or with independent
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Behavior Change and Consumer Driven Health Plans: Full Replacement Is the Solution
Consumer Directed Health Plans and “full replacement”; are those words that make you uneasy? You’ve read about them, you’re watching
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Prevention and Wellness Practices in a 21st Century Environment: What We Have and What We Need
The Big Picture—In the last two decades the science of Behavioral Health Prevention has advanced faster than our ability
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Workplace Health Study Reveals: Walking Wellness Program Steps Down Chronic Disease Risk
As lifestyle-related chronic disease afflicts the western world like never before, organizations are bearing an increasingly
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Growing Young
Everlasting health is within your grasp... but the journey is uniquely yours. The time is now to do a shift from aging to ageless
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Health Insurance Exchanges Explained
President Obama signed significant leigislation on March 23, 2010 which is famously known as the Patient Protection and Affordable
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Obesity - The American Health Care Curse
Americans are overweight. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%)
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INTEGRATION OF ON SITE CLINICS WITH PRICE TRANSPARENCY TOOLS
Corporations such as Castlight and Compass now provide consumers with tools to make smarter health care purchase
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Social Media + Electronic Health Records = Social EHR Systems
Social media is the new name for relationships around the globe; and this is true for a doctor patient relationship
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Who Put Data in My Coaching? Measuring What Matters to Your Employees AND Your Bottom Line
In last month’s article, “The Low Down on Coaching”, my partner Stephanie McDilda and I explored what coaching
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The Importance of Benefits Communication
Looking back on my 12 years of providing benefit solutions to clients, I have arrived at one very important conclusion. Although
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Industry Pulse
Voluntary Benefits Magazine introduces a new monthly feature, “Industry Pulse.” The column is designed to highlight key industry
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Traditionally, I begin each month’s Editor’s Letter with the intent to avoid clichés and editorial jargon. Forgive me as I so eloquently
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