Core and Group Health

It's fairly intuitive that the best way to keep down the number of sick days employees take is for them to actually take sick days when they need them and keep the influenza out of the office. As businesses try to scale back health care spending,

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73 percent of employees with healthy diets reported having high levels of productivity, compared with 24 percent of employees with a poor diet. 51 percent of ideal weight employees had high morale, while only 25 percent of very o

So, in this business at least, transparency remains a cracked one-way glass. I'm sure you've heard about this one. The U.S. Attorney out of San Diego managed to squeeze $5.5 million worth of fines and penalties out of Unum Group earlier

People never cease to amaze me. Even after the daily headlines and a little bit of pulpit punching, rising health care costs still manage to shock and awe. Seriously, in this age of 24-hour news and chronic Web consumption, how is that even

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Two-thirds of employees surveyed said their health care plans were hard to understand. 65 percent of people surveyed who did not have a college education said their healthcare expenses were a challenge; 40 percent of people with a degree s

Well, the numbers are finally in. And no, I'm not referring to delegate counts -- I'll be making no decisions today. The Washington Post, among others, reports today that a new study from the Urban Institute indicates Massachusetts managed to