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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

Mad in America

S outh Korea is often celebrated for its remarkable economic growth, technological advancement, and cultural exports like K-pop and Korean dramas. For example, insurance data reveals that propofol usage in medical institutions rose 12% in a single year, with only 15% of it being used under national health insurance coverage.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

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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Appetite for hybrid working shows no sign of letting up at large firms

Workplace Insight

The ongoing advancements in technology have made remote collaboration more feasible and seamless than ever before. Collaboration tools have become essential in ensuring the coexistence of the digital and physical workplace, both internally with employees and externally with clients.

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

Mad in America

Blaming greedy lawyers for our healthcare cost problem comes under the same category as blaming modern medical advances, the expensive new technology and medicines to identify—and at times—cure diseases, and other common “red herrings” in the healthcare industry. healthcare as well.

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Leaders are forgetting about this $30 billion problem

Work Life

It’s often considered an insurance policy of sorts, a reason to be kept around. For example, they shared that a leading pharmaceutical company was managing the divestiture of assets by asking team members to share insights in individual Microsoft Word documents. And most of what they know leaves the organization when they do.

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

Commercially insured high-cost claimants represent nearly a third of all healthcare spending, even though they are only 1.2% of commercial health insurance enrollees. This does not even account for medical and pharmaceutical costs. According to the  American Health Policy Institute , their costs average $122,382 annually – 29.3

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Unveiling the Latest Employee Benefits Trends of Statistics You Need to Know

Wellness 360

Statistical Reports of Employee Benefits 2023: The following are the Statistics on Employee Benefits If detailed with proven surveys: Health Insurance: Remarkably, the most prevalent benefit provided by companies is Health Insurance by 58%, which reflects the significance of health benefits to employees. yearly rate.