As is true of automobile insurance, a strong case can be made for a mandate that requires individuals to purchase health insurance rather than shifting costs to others. A mandate by itself, however, is likely to be regressive. By dealing with individual needs through the back door, an employer mandate generally keeps costs hidden and raises employment problems, while an employer subsidy will be...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of naturopathic care (acupuncture, relaxation exercises, exercise and dietary advice, and a back care booklet) compared to standardized physiotherapy education and a back care booklet (control treatment) for low back pain in a sample (N = 70) of warehouse workers. DESIGN Economic evaluation based upon the results of a pragmatic randomized controll...

OBJECTIVES This study compared utilization of health care services by children with chronic conditions who were insured by either Medicaid or an employer group in 1992 and 1993. Five chronic conditions were selected to illustrate patterns of service use: asthma, attention deficit disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, and sickle cell anemia. METHODOLOGY Administrative databases were used to develop es...

This article addresses a new initiative of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to contract on a group basis with: employer self-insurance plans, unions, group health insurance companies, and Taft-Hartley Health and Welfare Funds for groups of Medicare beneficiaries. under this new concept, Medicare beneficiaries may elect in the future to obtain Medicare coverage through their group...

n engl j med 357;15 www.nejm.org october 11, 2007 1465 problems. The women, both in their 30s and mothers of young children, were obese and had diabetes. Gardiner weighed over 200 lb, smoked heavily, and avoided physical activity. Matovich weighed 230 lb, took insulin several times a day, had had episodes of severe hypoglycemia, and could not lift her babies because of pain from herniated lumba...

An Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is the one of a kind arrangement of benefits an employee gets consequently for the skills, capabilities and experience they convey to an organization. An EVP is about characterizing the substance of your organization and how it is special and what it remains for. Employer brand is a mind boggling and particular mix of promises, opportunities and experience of...

This paper uses matched employer-employee data to examine the wage responses a mandatory social insurance reform program in Ethiopia. By relying on firm-level differences alternative pre-reform contributory schemes, we extent which employers shifted cost of workers terms lower wages. We find partial switching that varies by workers’ employment history. Wages recent hires treatment firms show de...

Abstract Background Paired with other active antiretrovirals (ARVs), fostemsavir (FTR) may offer heavily treatment-experienced (HTE) people HIV (PWH) options for continuing effective treatment. Durability and effectiveness of FTR-containing regimens in routine clinical care the United States were assessed. Methods Electronic health record data from OPERA® cohort used to identify adults initiati...

The free circulation of workers and services in the European Union after its latest enlargements has been believed to foster a ‘race to the bottom’ in wage standards. This paper explains the strategies of national employer associations towards labour market regulations geared to protect national wage standards in the context of labour mobility. First, this article shows that employers in nontra...

Employment sector and employer size account for substantial variation in workers' participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Other things being equal, employees in the public sector--that is, federal, state, and local governments--are much more likely to be offered a retirement plan than workers in the private sector. Within the private sector, workers in firms with 100 or more emplo...