Health Care Reform

The United States is by far the country that spends most on health care, yet has the worst overall population health, according to a new report.

To many, the phrase consumer-driven health care is another way of saying higher deductibles and co-pays. Make it more expensive to access medical care, the logic goes, and employees will think harder about whether that doctors visit is really necessary.

When it comes to compensating and rewarding employees, more companies are going less traditional.

Since its inception in 2003, health savings accounts have grown at a phenomenal rate. Today, there are more than 10 million accounts nationwide, a figure thats expected to increase significantly in the next few years.

Among the top 15 companies in the market, there was a mixture of results. As a group:

In the case of industry strength, who wins: man or machine? When trying to find the answer, professionals find themselves between a rock and a hard place.