The Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission

The Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission.

Health and Wellness Policy Ethics

This perspective is an ethical brief overview and examination of “wellness” policies in the modern workplace using practical examples and a general application of utilitarianism. Many employers are implementing policies that provide incentives to employees who lead a “healthy” lifestyle. The authors address how these policies could adversely affect “non-healthy” employees. There are a wide vari...

Unlocking the Aviation Trust Fund

Nevertheless, through all the contacts over the years since Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat went to Jerusalem, relationships have developed between Arabs and Israelis on many levels, including the official level. We now are at a stage where a considerable majority of Israelis support the peace process and where Mr. Arafat shows increasing sensitivity to the security concerns of Israelis. We now a...

Trust Fund Operations, 1959

one-third of this increase, however, represented a shift from the money payment to the vendor payment. Although vendor payments for medical care for the four categories combined went up in all but six of the 42 States that made such payments in one or more of these programs, almost three-fourths of the total increase occurred in eight States.5 For the country as a whole, the increase in vendor ...

Actuarial status of the SMI Trust Fund.

This article, adapted from the 1990 Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees, presents a summary of the current and projected financial and actuarial status of the Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund. The Board reports that the present financing schedule for the HI program is sufficient to ensure the payment of benefits over the next 13-15 years if the intermediate (II-A and II-B) assumpt...