Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
Americans once again are starting to understand the importance of taking time off from work, but there is still a long way to go, several new surveys show.
Two-thirds of the 3,227 human resource professionals surveyed say they experienced recruiting difficulty and skill shortages for certain types of jobs last year.
One way to garner bipartisan support for malpractice reform would be to focus on 'defensive medicine' and how it impacts overall costs, so experts say.
'Every taxpayer dollar that goes to someone committing fraud is a dollar that is not going to help working families and those who truly need and deserve assistance,' Lou Barletta, the bill's author, says.
Based on analysis of price growth and estimated rebate levels for the top 200 brand drugs by 2016 U.S. sales, a PCMA study finds no correlation between increasing prices set on individual drugs and the rebates negotiated with PBMs.
While nearly 80 percent of the respondents say their medical care is good or great, there are differences across the generations about their wish lists for health care.