by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
In your next job search break, if you get the urge to take a few minutes to try and understand the current bank of health care proposals, you might want to look at “Confused about health care reform? Join the club” from the Baltimore Sun.
I don’t know about you, but I’m confused. No doubt our health care benefits are going to change. We may still have time to influence our representatives. But it’s difficult not to be cynical about that possibility. For one thing, in my effort to form my opinion, I’ve tried to find side-by-side comparisons of what’s out there, but it seems impossible. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Baucus Bill, Health Care
1 Comment »
by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
As promised in “Can We Talk About Health Care? Rationally? ” the first step in talking about health care rationally is to establish that we have a problem. Once we eliminate any argument that things are just fine, we can more together toward agreeing on some kind of solution.
Let’s try. And let’s start with the most balanced and comprehensive situation I’ve found so far. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Health Care, health care costs
7 Comments »
by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
American employers and employees obviously have much at stake as we come to terms with the need to provide health care for all of us.
While vested interests, politicians, and media pundits take sides and do their best to sell their solutions, the Talent Centric Blog will try to present the issues free of political persuasion and posturing in a series of posts planned for the coming weeks.
We will offer an overview of the situation, then address the most pressing points, and leave you with a dispassionate resource of information you can use to clarify your thinking, make up your mind, and talk with your friends, colleagues, and elected representatives. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Health Care
1 Comment »