Cost-Containment

Lowering health-care spending means denying treatments, closing hospitals, and cutting provider salaries. Politically, this has proven impossible.

Here are five states where the fight for paid sick leave is currently taking place.

Smaller and mid-size groups are looking for guidance to better understand the potential risk and, ultimately, decide whether self-funding is right for them.

Increasingly, employees expect the benefits on offer to go beyond physical health and exercise and extend into a broader concept of wellness.

By following eight best practices, HR leaders can not only better support their employees with caregiving responsibilities, but also make sure they are not discriminating against their employees.

According to a Liazon poll of hundreds of thousands of customers, 85 percent say they are more aware of the cost of health care than before they began using the exchange.