Consumer Driven Health Care

28% of all employers offer a wellness program as a workplace benefit. 43% of employers believe their employees appreciate wellness programs. 49% of companies with 500 or more employees offer a wellness program. Source: MetLife 5th

HRAs are great, as long as they are used in a proper manner. The premise behind the CDH acronym family (HRA, HDHP and HSA) was to change the patient's behavior from an inefficient "all you can eat buffet" mentality of health care

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California employers are being deprived of one of the best tools available for lowering the cost of coverage and offering health benefits. They are being deprived of this tool, not by state legislators and regulators, but because of concerted action

When it comes to office pariahs, fat people have edged smokers out of the cubicle - or at least the break room. And, they draw particular ire from their healthier co-workers who remain convinced they're the ones carrying the heavier load -

In the discussion about ways to hold down the cost of health care, many factors are cited as possibilities to turn the tide. It seems the same factors being discussed by policymakers and health care experts are of concern to consumers, too. A