If you are a nurse and over 50, you may agree with the AARP’s decision to award the Central Florida Health Alliance with top honors in its ranking of best places to work. The Villages Regional Hospital, a member of the Alliance, offers flexible schedules, shorter shifts for nurses, and health benefits for part time [...]

Today’s college graduates are facing one of the dimmest job markets in decades. Having received health coverage through their university, many are left uninsured while they seek employment. Even for those gaining employment, there is often a waiting period of several months to get coverage through their new employer. Despite the fact that many of [...]

Workers Compensation premiums are moving in a totally different direction from the rest of the insurance marketplace, as they have fallen to one of the lowest levels in the nation. Partly thanks to state-mandated rollbacks and partly due to a drop in claims, Florida has become one of the best places for businesses to afford [...]

Among the work-related stresses an employee has to face, healthcare seems to be at the top of the list. According to statistics, employees worry about paying for their coverage, they worry about their employer raising rates, and they worry about a decrease in their coverages. This concern and stress no doubt affects the health and [...]

Despite the fact that our troubled economy leaves many people in the search for any kind of work, for some, finding work with health benefits is still top priority, no matter how long it takes. With one in six people in New Jersey without health insurance, the statistics are troubling. Many people however, remain uninsured [...]

It was a heated discussion as members of the California School Employees Association met to fight for their rights to health benefits. The school board is proposing to stop offering coverage to employees who work less than 7 hours a day which would affect many school employees in the custodial, transportation, and food service areas. [...]

It was announced today that the Horizon BlueCross Blue Shield of New Jersey membership with The Center for Health Value Innovation, has resulted in the availability of value-based benefit plan designs. This illustrates Horizon’s attempts to invest in the health of its employees by centering on education, wellness, and prevention. The program focuses on prevention, [...]

McCain’s plan for tackling the health insurance crisis involves taxing health insurance policies. This would affect all Americans who are covered under their employer’s policy. The amount of money that the employer pays toward an employee’s policy has never been considered part of that employee’s taxable income. This would change if McCain’s tax went into [...]

While the cost to companies for providing health insurance benefits to their employees is still much higher in the United States, some other places in the world are dealing with higher costs as well. The United Kingdom for example, is one of the highest in Europe, with companies spending 7 percent of their total payroll [...]

The Quincy City Employee Union has voted for a proposal which promises to save the city roughly 5 million dollars. By agreeing to join the Group Insurance Commission’s program, Mayor Tom Koch expects to use the money they will save in insurance premiums to soften the blow of lower revenues and slowed economic activity. The [...]