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COVID-19 vaccinations for employees: Can employers mandate it?

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If you decide to influence – but not require – employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, you may want to provide information and training on vaccine benefits and safety. Currently, employers can offer incentives up to 30% of the total cost of health insurance. There’s no requirement or attempt to influence vaccinations for employees.

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Workplace Wellness Programs: Are They Really Worth the Investment?

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Lower health insurance premiums? Promoting wellness as a way to contain rising costs of healthcare has been researched extensively, but the verdict remains unclear. What’s in it for companies that devote time and money into health management programs? Happier employees? Why workplace wellness? Why workplace wellness?

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

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Or maybe you’d like to expand your influence with a broader audience. When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. This distinction is important because the MD is basically a practitioner degree (which is appropriate for the practitioner) and not a research degree, which unfortunately has shaped the quality of healthcare in the 20 th century and beyond. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

Mad in America

What’s concerning is that despite the significant impact of sexual dysfunction on patients’ quality of life, many did not discuss these issues with their healthcare providers. ” The study also sheds light on the factors influencing patients’ decisions to continue, switch, or discontinue antidepressant treatment.

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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

Mad in America

What was that like for you as a child, and how has it influenced your book? As a journalist—much like how Robert Whitaker’s journalism led to Mad in America—I was curious about why, in a healthcare system that’s continually expanding with more medications, people are still feeling so sick. So, let’s start there.