IN THIS ISSUE: Send this Newsletter to Your Colleagues What's the Buzz in the Trade Press? ? Business Insurance Compares CD Health to Growth of Managed Care ? Business Insurance Touts Aetna Results ? Business Insurance Debunks Selection Concerns ? Business Insurance Editors - CD Health Has Promising Start ? Employee Benefit News Drills Down on HSAs ? Employee Benefit News - HSAs … [Read more...] about What’s the Buzz in the Trade Press?
Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress
IN THIS ISSUE: ? Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress ? Distortions From Academia ? Krugman "Pooh-Poohs" President's Report ? President's Report Provides Compelling Analysis ? Joint Economic Committee Hearing on CD Health Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress This is going to be an ugly election, full of lies and distortions. A couple of weeks ago we reported on the e-mails the … [Read more...] about Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress
The Rule of Law
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have threatened to hold up the nomination of Mark McClellan to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services because Dr. McClellan refuses, as FDA commissioner, to permit the importation of price-controlled drugs from Canada into the U.S. This boggles the mind. The FDA commissioner is sworn to uphold the law of the land ? as are United States … [Read more...] about The Rule of Law
Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress
IN THIS ISSUE: ? Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress ? Distortions From Academia ? Krugman "Pooh-Poohs" President's Report ? President's Report Provides Compelling Analysis ? Joint Economic Committee Hearing on CD Health Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress This is going to be an ugly election, full of lies and distortions. A couple of weeks ago we reported on the e-mails … [Read more...] about Galen Publishes Open Letter to Congress
The Performance and Potential of Consumer Driven Health Care
In testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Howard Leach, head of human resources for Logan Aluminum in Kentucky, related his company?s positive experience with consumer directed health care for the company?s 1,000 workers. The company CUT its health costs by 18.7% in 2003 over 2002, ?an improvement of $925,000 in the company?s bottom line,? Leach said. Logan tailored an Aetna HealthFund … [Read more...] about The Performance and Potential of Consumer Driven Health Care
The Performance and Potential of Consumer Driven Health Care
In testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Howard Leach, head of human resources for Logan Aluminum in Kentucky, related his company?s positive experience with consumer directed health care for the company?s 1,000 workers. The company CUT its health costs by 18.7% in 2003 over 2002, ?an improvement of $925,000 in the company?s bottom line,? Leach said. Logan tailored an Aetna HealthFund … [Read more...] about The Performance and Potential of Consumer Driven Health Care
Open Letter to Congress – Recent Attacks on HSAs
Click here to read an open letter to Congress from Greg Scandlen, director of the Galen Institute's Center for Consumer Driven Health Care. The letter concerns the controversy surrounding whether participants in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program will be allowed to create Health Savings Accounts. Opponents have misused and misinterpreted earlier studies to argue that providing … [Read more...] about Open Letter to Congress – Recent Attacks on HSAs
Open Letter to Congress – Recent Attacks on HSAs
Click here to read an open letter to Congress from Greg Scandlen, director of the Galen Institute's Center for Consumer Driven Health Care. The letter concerns the controversy surrounding whether participants in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program will be allowed to create Health Savings Accounts. Opponents have misused and misinterpreted earlier studies to argue that providing … [Read more...] about Open Letter to Congress – Recent Attacks on HSAs