Consumer Driven Health Care

Most Americans arent healthyand they arent getting any better not following the advice of their primary care doctors. According to a TeleVox Healthy World Report, A Fragile Nation in Poor Health, three out of four Americans (83 percent) admit they dont follow treatment plans theyve been given by their doctor...

While the benefit is extremely rare in the private sector, where use-it-or-lose-it policies prevail, state and local government workers around the country can convert unused sick time into straight cash, retirement credits or use them to pay for health care when they retire.

Say you've had a heart attack and your insurer offered you free medicines to help prevent another one. Doctors did that in a major study and were stunned to find that only about half of patients took them.

What would be a more fitting thank you to veterans is if practitioners accepted TRICARE, and the government didnt aim to reform the militarys health care system, too.

According to experts at Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, there are five workplace trends that employers, HR professionals and brokers should be aware of in order to be prepared for 2012.

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Employers and consumers alike are adopting health savings accounts as a viable way to manage their health care costs without compromising care, according to two national surveys released Thursday.

Consumers now have the means to exert their individuality, or weirdness, and seek out products and services accordingly. And it's about to get even "weirder" because insurance exchanges, both public and private, are poised to take choice to a whole new level in the world of health benefits.