Consumer Driven Health Care

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  Wisconsin bill would ban mandatory flu shots

  By Kevin Wang  |  May 20, 2013

  Wisconsin employers, including hospitals, nursing homes and other health care agencies, could no longer require workers to get flu shots under a bill pending in the Legislature.

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  Bucking tradition

  By Mike Sullivan  |  May 20, 2013

  Like this forward-thinking retailer, our own industry would benefit from advancing its collective mindset. We need to consider innovative possibilities, rather than cling to time-honored practices. We must expand beyond the walls of tradition that confine us.

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  What do we eat?

  By Mary Clare Jalonick  |  May 20, 2013

  Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

• Plain Truths about Dental and Vision Within Health Care Reform

  By Sponsor: Ameritas  |  May 17, 2013

• HHS tightens child care health, safety standards

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 16, 2013

  The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it will, for the first time, impose tough national health and safety standards for all child care facilities that accept government subsidies.

• HSAs remain viable for working poor

  By Allison Bell  |  May 16, 2013

  Low-income people will still be able to use health savings accounts after Jan. 1, 2014.

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  What my mother taught me about health care

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 15, 2013

  I could report and write about health care all day long—which, oh yea, I do—but my cancer survivor mother has taught me more about it than anyone else.

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  Tech helps to usher in big changes in benefits

  By Nathan Solheim  |  May 15, 2013

  Technology has made a profound impact on the benefits industry, and it’s sure to change the way brokers and agents do business for decades to come.

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  Consumer-directed benefits: The affordable in Affordable Care

  By Jody Dietel  |  May 15, 2013

  “Traditional” health care benefits vs. consumer-directed benefits—that is the question.

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  Drug costs persist as concern for Medicare patients

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 14, 2013

  More than a third of Medicare Part D beneficiaries say they have daily concerns about their prescription drug costs.