Analysis

Even before the current coronavirus pandemic, more employers were recognizing the growing need to address employee caregivers.

Employers may be offering resources to help workers understand, but that doesn't mean they're using them.

For comparison, last year they paid out $1.3 billion in medical-loss ratio rebates--a record at the time.

Since individual-coverage HRAs became available in January, how have employers made use of them?

But the percentage of all deaths resulting from 'flu-like illness' and pneumonia shot up like a rocket.

How you feel about the the pandemic and our country's response depends a lot on who you are and where you live.