Daniel McKeague, a 36-year-old sales manager and father of three from Hugo, Minn., beat out some 12,500 contestants to become the new voice of the insurance company’s duck mascot, Aflac announced April 26.
Dominion Dental has dropped its third quarter group dental rates by 10 percent on its Choice Access PPO plans, making the company’s dental plans even more attractive to employers, says Jeff Schwab, director of marketing for Dominion.
Health care would be better managed by conservatives—at least in the eyes of Canadians, a new poll suggests. In an Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Global Television just last week, more Canadians said they trust the New Democratic Party and the Conservatives to manage health care more than Liberal leaders.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour got into trouble with Obamacare supporters when he told the Boston Globe on Wednesday that “there’s nobody in Mississippi who does not have access to health care” despite the fact the state boasts some of the country’s worst health statistics.
Two recent studies—one from the Economic Policy Institute and another from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research—show that more than a third of employees do not get paid for sick time they take.
Most employees - both younger and older -believe benefits like medical insurance, defined contribution plans and dental insurance, are important; yet four out of 10 employees lack any knowledge of how much their medical insurance costs.