Alan Goforth is a freelance writer in suburban Kansas City. In addition to freelancing for several publications, he has written a dozen books about sports and other topics.
When asked about a variety of health care proposals, including those put forth by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, about 6 in 10 said boosting price transparency rules to ensure that health care prices are available to patients should be a top priority.
Various pieces of health care transparency legislation have identified areas requiring employers to meet their fiduciary responsibilities, such as designing an evaluation process for selecting vendors to deploy their health and welfare benefits strategy.
Top career regrets include not asking for a pay increase (6%), not prioritizing work-life balance (59%), staying at a job too long (58%) and not negotiating salary when taking a job (58%).
Provider directories that often include inaccurate addresses, phone numbers, specialties and availability can frustrate their efforts to provide efficient, affordable health care.
Aetna in late December sued 20 major pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of engaging in a conspiracy to fix prices for more than 100 generic medications.