Siezing Control: 5 Steps for Employers to Achieve a Competitive Advantage
May 13th, 2010
The financial impact of healthcare reform will be to increase expenses in the system by an additional .9% per year, (per the CMS Office of the Actuary), and by as much as 10% to 20% for employers over the next decade according to our preliminary analysis. There are 3 key drivers leading to the acceleration [...]
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CANCELLED: Waxman Shuts Down Testimony from Deere & Co.
April 23rd, 2010
With all of our energy re-directed to the implemention of the health reform legislation, I missed this item. A couple weeks back I called your attention to Henry Waxman’s Energy & Commerce inquiry into impact of HCR the earnings of companies like John Deere, AT&T et al. Surprise surprise…Without any of the fanfare of his [...]
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Baseball is here, but look to Massachusetts for some new hardball…
April 13th, 2010
As all New Englander’s know, if not most of the country, Massachusetts is one of the states that has been tagged as taking a leading role in trying to tackle healthcare reform. In 2007, the state implemented Commonwealth Care (also known as RomneyCare or MassCare) with the goal of increasing statewide insurance coverage levels, similar [...]
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Meet the Team: HCR Week #2 “Cafe Table Chat”
April 6th, 2010
Meet the Ovation Benefits healthcare task force hard at work translating the new law into manageable action steps.
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The $1 Billion Bottom-line Impact of Reform
April 5th, 2010
As the dust begins to start (thats right, I did say begins to start…) settling on the practical implications of health reform, we’ve seen the first big batch of employers announcing the immediate financial impact. The chart below captures the magnitude of earnings related announcements we’ve seen over the past week or so: More info on [...]
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