By Evan Falchuk
There’s a lot of action happening in the states around health reform.
Last week, I was honored to be asked to testify to the legislature of the state of Michigan about their effort. Here’s my testimony (scroll to bottom for Q&A portion):
Here’s what the state is trying to do. (more…)
By Evan Falchuk
If you were watching New England Cable News on Friday, their top business news story was on how EMC deals with the problem of health care costs. A big part of the story was Best Doctors.
You can see the story below. I’m in it in a couple of spots:
I’ve written about EMC previously here.
Also last week, BLR posted a free whitepaper on trends in benefits and compensation. It, too, included Best Doctors and Delia Vetter, Senior Director of Benefits for EMC.
By Evan Falchuk
Imagine there were a parallel health care system.
In this system, everyone has to be covered. There are strict controls on how much insurers and providers can charge. And there are strict limits to make sure doctors do only those tests and treatments that are medically appropriate.
Nothing like that could really exist in America, could it? Actually, it has for the last 100 years. It’s called workers’ compensation, and it’s the health care system Americans who have been injured on the job experience every day.
Does it work?
By Evan Falchuk
Want to know why big health reform plans are going badly?
Not enough attention is being paid to people doing real, meaningful things to improve the cost and quality of health care.
In my series “Real People Real Reform,” I share some of these stories.
This time, I speak with Rick George, Director of Benefits for J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. If you live in North America, you’ve almost certainly seen their yellow logo on a truck on a highway near you.
But J.B. Hunt is more than just trucks. They are a recognized leader in transportation logistics. And they’re bringing that same level of insight and attention to their health care programs.
By Evan Falchuk
For the next in my continuing series of real people making real change to health care I interviewed Joanne Jones, Senior Director of Benefits & Global Mobility for Genzyme Corporation. Genzyme is one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, with more than 11,000 employees. It’s also one of the world’s most innovative companies when it comes to health care and health care benefits.
Joanne recently shared her thoughts on how Genzyme helps its employees live healthier lives, and how Genzyme helps their employees and their families improve the quality — and cost — of care.
By Evan Falchuk
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Following my earlier webinar, I said I would be doing a series of Q&A’s with benefit executives from some of the country’s most innovative companies. The first one features the insights of Delia Vetter, Senior Director of Benefits of EMC Corporation. She shared her views on employee benefits, health care IT, and how an important company like EMC thinks about the hottest topics of the day.
I think you’ll find her thoughts very interesting.
