With his health care overhaul stalled, President Barack Obama has challenged America to come up with alternatives. “You got a better idea? Bring it on,” he recently announced. A televised summit meeting on health care ideas is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 25. A suggestion. Why not focus on streamlining health costs by harnessing technology that allows […]
By George Pantos At tomorrow’s White House health reform summit, President Obama hopes to re-invigorate the health care debate and prompt Congress to act on the issue this year. He’s invited members of both parties to meet, challenging Republicans and Democrats alike to offer alternative reform ideas. Here’s one for would-be reformers—why not use technology […]
Technology Offers Immediate Solution for Soaring Healthcare Costs While President Obama made a strong pitch for health insurance reform to a joint session of Congress, striking omissions in his speech were failure to address the critical cost issue and how technology can help contain escalating health costs today. Absent from his speech were references to how […]
The challenge for Congress is to walk a fine line by adopting needed reforms while strengthening the current system. The quest for health reform by a divided Congress is echoing loudly across the U.S. employment-based landscape. Although a final legislative outcome is far from being decided as of this writing in mid-September 2009, the direction […]
The Skinny on Self Insurance Nothing has revolutionized the U.S. health care system over the past quarter century quite like self-insured group health benefits. Self funding allows employer sponsored health plans–now covering 75 million Americans–to assume the financial risk for providing health benefits for employees, rather than covering that risk thru insurance carriers. From objective, […]
