Health Insurance Plans for Businesses
03/04/2007
HOUMA -- Drug testing is widespread in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, due in part to the high level of skilled industrial jobs available in the area.
Frank Bonvillian, general manager of MMSI Services, a drug-testing company at 409 N. Hollywood Road in Houma, said much of the company's business comes from area firms that send workers to jobs at big oil companies in the region.
It's not just a local rule; it's one required by the federal government. The U.S. Department of Transportation requires drug testing for employees in safety-sensitive jobs.
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03/03/2007
With health-care premiums rising at a rate faster than the rate of inflation and wages, health-care costs have been among the top concerns for members of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry for the past several years.
The PA Chamber supports the administration's efforts to increase access to health-care coverage, improve the quality of medical care and better control the cost of services.
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03/01/2007
Message from the Chairman
Robert Wood Johnson IV is a member of the founding family of Johnson & Johnson, the worldwide healthcare corporation. He serves on the board of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and numerous business and philanthropic organizations. His family has been affected by both lupus and juvenile diabetes, which has motivated Mr. Johnson to take a leading role in raising funds to prevent, treat, and cure autoimmune diseases. Besides chairing the Alliance, he is chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF), and co-chairman of JDRF's Research Partnership.Closing in on a Cure. Mr.
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03/01/2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 1, 2007) - Speaking on behalf of
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Michael
McRaith, Director of the Illinois Division of Insurance, testified
Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs on the need for a federal government/private market partnership to
insure terrorism risk. McRaith applauded the Committee for holding the
hearing early in the legislative session and urged Congress to move
quickly to avoid the market disruptions and uncertainty that followed the
September 11 terror attacks.
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03/01/2007
Schwarzenegger Health Insurance Plan Would Drive Up Costs
Medicare Recipients Warned to Resist Aggressive Marketing
"How Do Households Choose Their Employer-Based Health Insurance?" by Jean- Marie Abraham, William B. Vogt, Martin S. Gaynor -- This study found that price influences workers' selection of employer-based health coverage, and that price sensitivity varies depending on marital status, wealth, and the number of employer coverage offers a household has.
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03/01/2007
New York has had one of the worst workers' compensation systems in the country. For the past 15 years, New York's maximum weekly benefit stood at $400 - lower than every state except Mississippi and Arizona, not to mention the minimum benefit: $40 a week. Regionally, New York ranks last among nine states (from a high of $1,124 in New Hampshire down to New Jersey's benefit of $691). The value of that $400 benefit is less than $288 in 1992 dollars. Most of New York's injured workers receive a benefit that puts them below the federal poverty line for a family of four.
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