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.
Currently 47 mostly rural counties have no participating issuer on the ACA exchange, but several issuers have indicated they would expand, though they havent yet committed to specific localities.
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.