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CNNMoney: Retiring couples need $215K for health costsupdated: Tue Mar 27 2007 15:30:00

A word of warning: this article could adversely affect your health. It all depends on how sticker shock affects your system.

CNNMoney: Read Bernanke's testimonyupdated: Wed Feb 28 2007 10:30:00

The following is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday:

CNNMoney: How Chrysler's gains turned to painupdated: Tue Feb 13 2007 11:31:00

Chrysler Group is set to join its Detroit-based rivals in the breakdown lane of the nation's auto industry, expected to announce about 10,000 job cuts and some assembly line closings Wednesday - just a year after it was racing past competitors in most measures of success.

CNNMoney: How Chrysler's gains turned to painupdated: Wed Feb 07 2007 11:08:00

Chrysler Group is set to join its Detroit-based rivals in the breakdown lane of the nation's auto industry, just a year after it was racing past those competitors in most measures of success.

CNNMoney: Wal-Mart, union push universal health careupdated: Wed Feb 07 2007 11:03:00

In a partnership of unlikely allies, Wal-Mart's CEO, other corporate leaders and the head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) called Wednesday for universal health care coverage for all Americans by 2012.

CNNMoney: What Bush's health plan means to youupdated: Tue Jan 23 2007 10:44:00

President Bush in his State of the Union address Tuesday laid out a plan intended to make healthcare more affordable, give everyone who buys insurance the same tax break and incentivize you to be more cost-conscious in how you spend your healthcare dollars.

Fortune: Bush's risky State of the Union ployupdated: Tue Jan 23 2007 09:25:00

Just when you thought Washington politics couldn't get any weirder: now George W. Bush wants to tax the rich.

CNNMoney: Big Three 'pleased' after Bush meeting but ...updated: Tue Nov 14 2006 14:24:00

Top executives from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler got their meeting with President Bush Tuesday, and while they left saying they were pleased by the talks, they also left without any firm pledges of help from the administration.

Money Magazine: 50 Ways to Cut Your Health-Care Costsupdated: Wed Nov 01 2006 00:01:00

Even if you're in perfect health now, just thinking about the cost of medical care is bound to make you feel a little ill. With the price of everything from hospital visits to prescription drugs up...

Fortune: Review your health planupdated: Mon Oct 09 2006 15:33:00

If you are covered by an employer-sponsored health plan, chances are you'll have a high-deductible plan linked to a health savings account to consider this year - along with the usual array of HMOs, PPOs and point of service plans. It may be a tempting choice, but when it comes to health insurance, the cheaper option often has hidden costs.

CNNMoney: Health costs well outpace inflationupdated: Mon Sep 25 2006 14:55:00

Health insurance premiums this year rose 7.7 percent, the lowest growth rate in six years but still more than double the growth rate in inflation and worker earnings, according to the latest survey from Kaiser Family Foundation.

CNNMoney: Chrysler, union reportedly at oddsupdated: Wed Sep 06 2006 06:07:00

Chrysler Group is running into trouble gaining the same concessions from the United Auto Workers union on health care coverage that the union has already granted rivals General Motors and Ford Motor, according to a published report.

CNNMoney: Wagoner asks for modest health reformsupdated: Thu Jul 13 2006 12:00:00

Despite prompting from two Democrats, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner stopped short Thursday of asking Congress to take a broad-based reform of the health care system.

FSB: Unfair burdenupdated: Wed Jun 14 2006 14:25:00

Life should not be so frustrating for small-business owners who want to offer health insurance to their workers. While big corporations can choose among eager insurers, a small-business owner may b...

CNNMoney: Gas prices and health costs hurt retirement saving effortsupdated: Thu May 11 2006 10:29:00

Rising gas prices and health care costs have cut into the retirement savings efforts American households, according to a report released Thursday.

Fortune: Letters: Getting real on immigrationupdated: Fri Apr 14 2006 14:40:00

My request for a "better idea" on immigration ("Let's Get Real on the Immigration Problem") generated a lot of responses, a sampling of which are reproduced below.

CNNMoney: Retiree health costs up 5.3%updated: Mon Mar 06 2006 09:48:00

An average couple retiring this year will need $200,000 to cover their healthcare costs for 20 years in retirement, not including the expense of long-term care should they need it.

Money Magazine: Choosing your health planupdated: Wed Feb 08 2006 07:49:00

New York (CNN/Money) - Who's going to help take care of your health next year?

CNNMoney: GM slashes dividend, CEO pay, retiree benefitsupdated: Tue Feb 07 2006 07:49:00

General Motors Corp. slashed its dividend and cut the pay of CEO Rick Wagoner and other top officers Tuesday, and announced moves to cut retirement and health costs for nonunion workers.

CNNMoney: Bush spotlights tax cuts and healthcareupdated: Tue Jan 31 2006 15:36:00

Following the roughest year of his presidency, President Bush on Tuesday evening used his State of the Union address to reiterate some of his key economic proposals: making tax-cuts permanent and making healthcare coverage more affordable and portable.

CNNMoney: Bush wants tax breaks for health costsupdated: Wed Jan 25 2006 07:37:00

President Bush will propose new tax breaks for personal health spending during his State of the Union address next week, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

CNNMoney: Resolution 8: Get healthyupdated: Mon Dec 12 2005 15:27:00

These days the classic New Year's get-healthy resolution -- shed those extra 10 pounds, kick the nicotine habit, dust off the old gym membership card -- has been joined by a new one: Lower those out-of-pocket health-care costs.

Fortune: The (R)evolution of Steve Caseupdated: Mon Nov 14 2005 00:01:00

The former chairman of the company formerly known as AOL Time Warner is sitting back on a tan leather couch in his Washington, D.C., office, looking happy and relaxed. I'm here to talk to Steve Cas...

CNNMoney: Choosing your health planupdated: Wed Nov 02 2005 18:59:00

Who's going to help take care of your health next year?

CNNMoney: SEC subpoenas GMupdated: Wed Oct 26 2005 19:31:00

General Motors Corp. confirmed Wednesday evening that the Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed records from it about its accounting practices, creating further headaches for the already embattled automaker.

CNNMoney: Doctor's orders: GM, UAW cut dealupdated: Mon Oct 17 2005 08:20:00

General Motors Corp. announced an agreement Monday with the United Auto Workers union that the troubled automaker says will save billions in health care costs.

CNNMoney: Tax-free health benefit may changeupdated: Wed Oct 12 2005 12:53:00

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN/Money) - When you work for a company, your employer typically foots a large portion, if not all of your health insurance premiums. That money, which is not reported on your W2, is tax-free to you.

CNNMoney: Will GM follow Delphi into bankruptcy?updated: Mon Oct 10 2005 10:25:00

The chances that General Motors will file for bankruptcy are now about 30 percent, according to one industry analyst, following the bankruptcy filing by the company's former parts unit, Delphi.

CNNMoney: Report: GM, UAW near health-care dealupdated: Wed Oct 05 2005 07:12:00

General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers appear to be nearing a deal to trim about $1 billion annually off the nearly $6 billion the auto manufacturer is expected to spend this year on health-care costs, according to a published report.

CNNMoney: Healthcare costs spike againupdated: Tue Sep 13 2005 18:18:00

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The good news: The growth rate in the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance plan premiums declined for the second year in a row and ended four consecutive years of double-digit growth rates.

CNNMoney: Report: Immigrants not healthcare burdenupdated: Tue Jul 26 2005 07:18:00

New research has dashed the "myth" that immigrants place a major burden on America's healthcare system, according to a news report.

Veterans programs to get more money for health careupdated: Wed Jun 29 2005 16:36:00

The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to ask Congress for more money to meet veterans' health care expenses after disclosing last week a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall in the program.

CNNMoney: Report: GM sets deadline for UAWupdated: Tue Jun 14 2005 07:22:00

General Motors Corp. is set to take unilateral action to reduce its health care expenses if it doesn't get concessions from the United Auto Workers union by the end of the month, according to a published report.

CNNMoney: Report: UAW to discuss GM concessionsupdated: Fri Jun 10 2005 07:02:00

Leaders of United Auto Workers union locals gave the green light to concession talks with General Motors Corp., according to a published report, although the union leadership vowed it will only grant relief that does not require a reopening of the current labor contract.

Fortune: Socialized medicine? From Republicans?updated: Mon May 02 2005 00:01:00

WHAT DO GENERAL MOTORS' WOES, the Medicare prescription-drug law, the state and local health-care time bomb described in the previous story, and Congress's recent refusal to trim soaring state Medi...

Fortune: The great state health-care giveawayupdated: Mon May 02 2005 00:01:00

IT'S EASY TO IMAGINE THAT THE retiree health-care crunch doesn't really apply to you. That your pocketbook is somehow impervious to the demographic reality of millions of prescription-pill-popping,...

CNNMoney: Report: Chrysler wins health savingsupdated: Mon Mar 21 2005 07:06:00

Chrysler Group has won changes from the United Auto Workers union that will save it tens of millions of dollars in health costs, while costing employees and their family up to $1,000 in health care deductibles, according to a published report.

CNNMoney: New ways to get firedupdated: Fri Mar 11 2005 16:09:00

Are companies getting more intrusive in dictating private behaviors?

Money Magazine: 5 Ways to Cut Your Health Care Costsupdated: Sat Jan 01 2005 00:01:00

For Pamela Badgerow Adams, 53, and her husband Normer, 54, the past two years have been a medical nightmare. A rare intestinal ailment sent their elder son to the hospital, their younger son was ho...

Money Magazine: Are You Ready To Own Your Health Care?updated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00

Most Americans got their first hint of the future of the U.S. health-care system during President Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention—but they had to listen very closely....

Fortune: Neither Bush nor Kerry can fix your No. 1 problemupdated: Mon Oct 04 2004 00:01:00

SO AT LAST THE ELECTION IS A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE economy than it used to be. Voters have been telling pollsters for months that the economy is their No. 1 concern, but media chatterers don't want...

CNNMoney: Kerry edges Bush on economyupdated: Tue Sep 28 2004 11:48:00

The first in a series of MONEY/ICR polls of the so-called 'investor class' -- the roughly half of American households who own investments and are already being courted by both parties as an emerging political force -- finds that investors say Democratic candidate John Kerry (with 41 percent) would be a better manager of the U.S. economy over the next four years than George Bush (with 40 percent).

CNNMoney: Insurance premiums soar 11%updated: Wed Sep 08 2004 17:05:00

Health insurance costs are going up, and up, and up. And in some cases, up some more.

Fortune: The Newt in winterupdated: Mon Sep 06 2004 00:01:00

Though Newt Gingrich and his Contract With America led Republicans ten years ago to a historic takeover of Congress, the mastermind behind the conservative ascendancy will not speak at the GOP conv...

Home sweet homeupdated: Thu Aug 19 2004 07:50:00

President Bush and John Kerry wake up in their own beds today, in Crawford and on Beacon Hill.

Fortune: By The Numbersupdated: Mon Aug 09 2004 00:01:00

With no cure in sight for soaring medical costs, big businesses have officially declared our health-care system DOA. GE, AT&T, and more than 100 other organizations affiliated with the National Coa...

Fortune: How to defang the health-care cost monsterupdated: Mon Apr 19 2004 00:01:00

Washington is aflutter over charges that the White House may have covered up the true cost of the prescription drug bill. But whoever may have told Medicare's actuary not to share what with whom, t...

CNNMoney: Medicare may go bust by 2019updated: Tue Mar 23 2004 14:19:00

The trust fund that supports hospital benefits for the nation's elderly, under the federal Medicare program, will become insolvent in 2019, seven years earlier than had been predicted, according to the annual report of trustees of the Social Security and Medicare programs.

Money Magazine: 9 year-end movesupdated: Wed Dec 03 2003 00:33:00

Your schedule is being hijacked by holiday dinners, back-to-back school pageants, road trips to visit relatives and, of course, shopping, shopping, shopping. Who has time for financial planning?

FSB: Passing The Buck on Health Costs? A new medical insurance, called consumer-driven coverage, can save your updated: Mon Dec 01 2003 00:01:00

Year after year of double-digit insurance-premium hikes have some small businesses fearing for their health. Some have stopped providing health insurance. But an increasing number are offering "con...

Money Magazine: The Health-Care Winners Like the rest of us, managed-care firms are facing rising costs for drugs and doctors. That doesn't meanupdated: Mon Dec 01 2003 00:01:00

Rising health-care costs are putting the squeeze on everybody--well, almost everybody. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, health-plan premiums are up nearly 14% this year, and deductibles a...

Money Magazine: All the Right Moves Smart steps at year-end for your investments, your company benefits and your taxesupdated: Mon Dec 01 2003 00:01:00

Your schedule is being hijacked by holiday dinners, back-to-back school pageants, road trips to visit relatives and, of course, shopping, shopping, shopping. Who has time for financial planning? Bu...

Fortune: Save an Arm and a Leg How can you prepare for soaring health-care costs? Follow these three steps.updated: Mon Oct 27 2003 00:01:00

When Ed Baltram retired in 2001 after more than 30 years as a manager at Lucent Technologies, paying for health care was the least of his worries. But then Lucent announced in September that it was...

FSB: Who Are These Guys, Anyway? The Democratic presidential candidates aren't divulging their economic plans yet. But their voting rupdated: Tue Jul 01 2003 00:01:00

As we head into the latter half of this pre-election year, you'd expect the air to be filled with sweeping Democratic plans for reinvigorating the still-stalled economy. Instead, the primary candid...

Fortune: Your Financial Reality Checkup Wallet feeling sick? Avoiding the doctor only adds to the pain. Our in-house updated: Mon Jun 16 2003 00:01:00

We'll go out on a limb and make the following assumption: It has been a while since you took stock of your financial well-being. We understand. Closing your eyes to how badly your various brokerage...

Money Magazine: Here's To Your Health Think you'll always have those health-care benefits? Think again.updated: Thu May 01 2003 00:01:00

After 26 years with steel giant LTV, Betty Boyce was ready to have fun. From her retirement income, she budgeted $600 a month for winter skiing, summer golfing, three-day-a-week workouts and salsa ...

Fortune: The Breaking Point Worker health costs will rise a staggering 24% this year. Companies can no longer afford to pick up the bill.updated: Mon Mar 03 2003 00:01:00

The death of Kjeston "Michelle" Rodgers was, by all accounts, an accident. The 40-year-old single mother of three daughters was walking in a dimly lit area outside a General Electric plant in Louis...

Money Magazine: Corporate America's Best Benefits AMERICA'S LARGEST COMPANIES STRUGGLE TO KEEP EMPLOYEES HAPPY IN SPITE OF updated: Sun Dec 01 2002 00:01:00

Not long ago, the stock market reigned supreme, CEOs were worshiped like baseball heroes, and Sept. 11 was just another day on the calendar. In those heady times, employers creatively enhanced thei...

Money Magazine: Insurance: Less Costs More Higher premiums and tough choices are coming. Here's what you need to know.updated: Fri Nov 01 2002 00:01:00

Early mariners had a way with a phrase. "All souls on board" meant a full ship of passengers, ready to set sail. Similarly, consultants to the health-care industry often describe the size of an ins...

Fortune: The Coming Crash in Health Care Medical insurers' stocks are sky-high. But the party can't last.updated: Mon Oct 14 2002 00:01:00

A weird but true fact about modern medical insurance: The healthiest way to deal with a managed-care company is to own stock in it. If you're covered by a medical benefits plan and actually go to t...

FSB: Looking For A Miracle Cure Drained by the high cost of health insurance, small business owners are looking for viable options toupdated: Fri Mar 01 2002 00:01:00

Jerry Shay, president of KME America, is on the front lines of small business' fight against rising medical costs. Over the past three years he has watched the health insurance premiums at his 11-p...

FSB: Employers, Heal Thyselves Strategies for dealing with the high costs of health insuranceupdated: Sat Dec 01 2001 00:01:00

As if war anxieties and recession worries weren't enough, now small businesses have to contend with higher health insurance costs. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation study found that in 2001 the ave...

Money Magazine: Open-Enrollment Survival Guide Tired of guessing which health plan is best? Here's a smarter strategy.updated: Thu Nov 01 2001 00:01:00

This fall, the annual ritual of picking a health plan will be more challenging than ever. Set aside, for a moment, people's heightened sense of financial vulnerability since September's attacks on ...

Money Magazine: Saving for a Rainy Day Learning to live with the high costs of health careupdated: Mon Oct 01 2001 00:01:00

Recently my father-in-law entered a hospital for treatment of a serious illness. To ensure his constant care, our family arranged for a 24-hour-a-day health-care aide, whose salary was not covered ...

FSB: Help! It's no surprise that small businesses are choking on high health-care costs. But can you lower those awful premiums?updated: Sun Oct 01 2000 00:01:00

For David Titcomb, buying health insurance is a bit like buying a candy bar. Over time the price keeps rising and the bar keeps shrinking. As the president of Titcomb Associates, a land-surveying f...

Money Magazine: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MEDICARE HMOS OUR EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION FINDS THAT THEY TEND TO WORK JUST FINE--IF YOU DON'T GET Supdated: Sat Mar 01 1997 00:01:00

Desperate to get a piece of the rapidly growing, increasingly healthy 65-and-over population, health maintenance organizations are selling themselves to the nation's estimated 38 million Medicare r...

Fortune: IS AMERICA REALLY UNDERTAXED? FANS OF BIG GOVERNMENT LIKE TO NOTE THAT THE U.S. IS ONE OF THE MOST LIGHTLY TAXED updated: Mon Jul 08 1996 00:01:00

If you ever want to get the fur flying in a roomful of policy wonks, ask them whether the tax burden in the United States is excessive. Absolutely! the opponents of big government will roar, includ...

Money Magazine: LOWDOWN ON HEALTH INSURANCEupdated: Sun Oct 01 1995 00:01:00

Early retirees are increasingly getting stuck for the cost of their health coverage as part of corporate downsizing. For instance, Unisys, the information management company with headquarters in Bl...

Fortune: AMERICA'S HEALTHIEST COMPANIES SICK OF HEART-STOPPING HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS? SMART COMPANIES LIKE J&J AND updated: Mon Jun 12 1995 00:01:00

Deep in the Louisiana bayou, a team of leathery pipeline workers--of all people--celebrate the rigors of healthy living. A few years ago the 14 men who operate a 22-acre natural gas platform in the...

Fortune: MEDICAL INFLATION LIVESupdated: Mon Mar 20 1995 00:01:00

MEDICAL INFLATION LIVES

Money Magazine: HEALTH WATCH The health reform taxes you'll pay How you can protect against three likely health reform taxesupdated: Thu Sep 01 1994 00:01:00

With the exception of raising the 24 cents-a-pack cigarette tax, Congress has so far avoided proposing in-your-face tax hikes to pay for health reform. But don't be fooled. Lawmakers are lining up ...

Fortune: THE REAL ACTION IN HEALTH CARE It's not taking place in the White House or Congress. The show to watch is the boisterous, free-mupdated: Mon Jul 11 1994 00:01:00

IF YOU'VE tuned out the unending complexities of health care reform -- if you can't even recall what's bothering Harry and Louise, and by the way, are they still married? -- it's okay. Though Clint...

Fortune: FIXING CLINTON'S HEALTH CARE PLAN The key is a go-slow, market-based approach that ensures access to medical care -- but dumps tupdated: Mon Apr 04 1994 00:01:00

BILL CLINTON'S ambitious 1,342-page health care reform bill has yet to clear its first congressional committee. But Washington insiders have already delivered this four-letter prognosis: D-E-A-D. T...

Money Magazine: Answer these questions and send them back to us updated: Fri Apr 01 1994 00:01:00

Put checks in the boxes and fax your answers to us at 212-522-0119, or mail them to Money Health-Care Poll, Room 32-38, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. 10020.

Fortune: WHY HEALTH COSTS CAN KEEP SLOWING Employers and providers are reengineering the whole system, and there are plenty of savings yeupdated: Mon Jan 24 1994 00:01:00

GET READY FOR a pleasant shock: Runaway medical care spending has decelerated to a brisk walk. It could be down to a saunter in the next few years and might even stop and rest a bit -- without the ...

Fortune: COMPANIES HATE THE HEALTH PLAN After a close look at President Clinton's proposal, many employers conclude they'd be stuck payinupdated: Mon Nov 29 1993 00:01:00

LOST IN THE BABBLE over health care reform are two fearsome facts that many companies are just beginning to discern -- and that have them sweating. First, President Clinton's plan would shift respo...

Fortune: A REPORT CARD ON HMOs Many Americans are scared to death about the care at HMOs. But a coast-to-coast FORTUNE survey turns up suupdated: Mon Jun 28 1993 00:01:00

HEALTH maintenance organizations take a startlingly sensible approach to cutting health care costs: Keep people well. Yet the very idea of joining one makes a lot of people sick. Why? HMOs provide ...

Fortune: A HEALTH PLAN THAT CAN WORK The vast U.S. medical system is already going through a radical change. The big question now is, wilupdated: Mon Jun 14 1993 00:01:00

IT'S 2005 and the impossible is happening. For the fifth straight year America's health care outlays are declining as a percent of GDP. That's not so amazing, since most people are now enrolled in ...

Money Magazine: Here are your thoughts on medical treatment. YOUR HEALTH-CARE PROGNOSIS: POOR, WITH NO EASY CURE IN SIGHT updated: Thu Apr 01 1993 00:01:00

Although more than 80% of the nearly 10,000 readers who responded to MONEY's February poll on health care think the treatment they receive personally is good or excellent, a full 51% believe the co...

Fortune: PRICE CONTROL POSSIBILITIESupdated: Mon Mar 22 1993 00:01:00

Get ready for Act II of Clintonomics -- the First Lady's task force on health care. A key question: Will Hillary emulate Hammurabi, the Babylonian ruler who slapped on history's first-recorded pric...

Fortune: Pain and suffering on the march, fair wages for weak hitters, why Zoe got off easy, and other matters. SICK STATISTICSupdated: Mon Feb 22 1993 00:01:00

Will Bill and Hillary get control of health care costs? As we punch away at the keyboard, that is the question pulsating in the Beltway beau monde. Back here in the real world -- the everyday world...

Money Magazine: Tell us what you think about key issues HOW WOULD YOU FIX THE HEALTH-CARE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA TODAY? updated: Mon Feb 01 1993 00:01:00

Scalpels are poised to start operating on the nation's $839 billion health- care system. Although there is no consensus yet on where the knife should fall, it appears increasingly likely that you'l...

Fortune: YES, THE MARKET CAN CURB HEALTH COSTS Memo to Clinton's transition team: Forget those tough expenditure ceilings you're considerupdated: Mon Dec 28 1992 00:01:00

EPOCHAL EVENTS often go unnoticed at the time they occur. The morning after the Wright brothers proved that heavier-than-air machines can stay aloft, no metropolitan dailies proclaimed MAN FLIES in...

Fortune: ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE IS HEALTH CARE A JOB KILLER?updated: Mon Apr 06 1992 00:01:00

Soaring health costs and corporate layoffs are connected, says Dan Lacey, editor of the Workplace Trends newsletter and author of four books on work in the U.S. You won't hear companies talk about ...

Fortune: LET'S REALLY CURE THE HEALTH SYSTEM By seizing on the momentum for universal health coverage and putting market forces to work, updated: Mon Mar 23 1992 00:01:00

WHAT'S WRONG with U.S. health care? Angry voters and anxious politicians in this presidential election year are fingering two villains -- costs that won't stop climbing and an insurance system that...

Fortune: THE BATTLE OVER BENEFITS Squeezed in a tight economy, companies are looking for savings where once they didn't dare: in health iupdated: Mon Dec 16 1991 00:01:00

THE BATTLE over benefits has grabbed a starring role in the corporate drama of the 1990s. Companies gasping for profits in a sluggish economy are no longer willing to bear giant, fast-growing expen...

Money Magazine: SOME HELPFUL ADVICE FROM FIVE HEALTH EXPERTSupdated: Mon Jul 01 1991 00:01:00

OUR roundtable discussion with five health-care authorities echoed reader suggestions about how medical costs could be reduced and provided several tips on how you can be a smarter, more aggressive...

Fortune: YES, COMPANIES CAN CUT HEALTH COSTS , Most corporate medical bills are still rising at a feverish pace. But a growing number of updated: Mon Jul 01 1991 00:01:00

No longer content to be the passive paymasters of America's ever more expensive private health care system, corporate executives are going on the attack. Their new remedy: managed-care networks. Un...

Fortune: TAKING ON PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 America's CEOs aren't ready to nationalize health care -- yet. Their cure: Get employees to pay morupdated: Mon Jul 01 1991 00:01:00

WHAT'S the biggest cost problem for American business between now and the year 2000? As you might guess, 63% of the chief executives recently polled by FORTUNE say that runaway medical bills are on...

Fortune: CEOs SEEK HELP ON HEALTH COSTSupdated: Mon Jun 03 1991 00:01:00

How many Ninja Turtle action toys does it take to pay for an appendectomy? Answer: 39,000, at least if you're Dayton Hudson. Kenneth Macke, CEO of the Minneapolis retailer, told the Senate Finance ...

Money Magazine: how to control health insurance costs You can keep both your employees -- and your profits -- in good health.updated: Wed May 15 1991 00:01:00

When John Morey learned that health insurance costs for his 40-person electronics firm would shoot up 50% last year, he didn't get mad, he got even. He started by scrapping the traditional medical ...

Money Magazine: 15 FAST-TRACK CAREERS The hottest jobs in the next decade will fatten your bank balance and enrich your life.updated: Fri Jun 01 1990 00:01:00

Time was when following a career path was like climbing a ladder. Rung by rung, you ascended in a succession of orderly steps, each one with added responsibility, pay, status and, you hoped, satisf...

Fortune: HOW TO CLOSE THE HEALTH CARE GAP Millions of Americans aren't insured, and many are losing protection because employers can't afupdated: Mon May 21 1990 00:01:00

IF YOU THINK your company's medical costs are off the fever charts, listen to Harry Featherstone. He's president and CEO of Will-Burt, an Orrville, Ohio, fabricator of automotive parts that employs...

Fortune: STRONG MEDICINE FOR HEALTH COSTS Companies feeling blue -- or in the red -- over feverish employee medical expenses have found supdated: Mon Apr 23 1990 00:01:00

WHAT ARE NOW EQUAL to half of all pretax profits and rising fast? Answer: company health benefits. No wonder managers are desperate. And no wonder many of them are marveling at a plan adopted by on...

Money Magazine: Your health costs Covering Your Longer Life WHILE MEDICARE MAY TAKE CARE OF NEARLY HALF YOUR MEDICAL BILLS, updated: Wed Nov 08 1989 00:01:00

For an idea of your employer-paid health insurance coverage in retirement, consider what it is now. Chances are your company has been tinkering with your medical benefits lately, adding an option h...

Money Magazine: Attention: All Employees From: Your Benefits Dept. Re: The Tax Break You Shouldn't Ignore Wish you could keep more of your pay? updated: Wed Nov 01 1989 00:01:00

Imagine this. You get a note one day from the Internal Revenue Service saying the agency feels bad that it's been taxing you on money you need to pay for such basic expenses as health insurance ded...

Money Magazine: HMOS THAT DON'T LOCK YOU TO DOCSupdated: Fri Sep 01 1989 00:01:00

Have you been tempted to join your company's health maintenance organization (HMO) for its low cost but feel uncomfortable about giving up visits to your family doctor or to the top specialist in t...

Fortune: THE KILLER COST STALKING BUSINESS Without paying attention to what they were doing, companies made some splendid health-benefit updated: Mon Feb 27 1989 00:01:00

IMAGINE A RECENT FORTUNE 500 retiree named Fred, a prince of an employee over the years, but right now a corporate horror. Fred, 60, is covered by his company's health plan and has a life expectanc...

Fortune: NO MORE HEALTH CARE ON THE HOUSE The bosses who foot the bills for active and retired workers can't bear the increasing burden. updated: Mon Feb 27 1989 00:01:00

AMERICA'S TOP CEOs view rocketing health care costs as a drain on profits and a threat to the very competitiveness of U.S. industry. Health care consumes more than 11% of GNP -- twice the bite it t...

Fortune: The health care genieupdated: Mon Feb 15 1988 00:01:00

In case you missed it, health insurance premiums went up this year -- way up. ''The increases range from 15% to 25%, with some going as high as 50%,'' says Robert Waldron of the Health Insurance As...

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