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PubMed1998

How to judge the cancer services benefit component of your health insurance plan.

BACKGROUND: Members of the oncology community, rich in data from years of published clinical research, epidemiology, and tumor registry information, expect businesses to evaluate the quality of cancer care using classic scientific methods. However, businesses lack sophistication in these data and tend to use significantly different criteria relating to cost, service, and access. Logistical problems also abound, such as the wide variety of cancers, small sample sizes, and the frequency with which patients change insurance plans. METHODS: Adapting an approach first proposed by Donabedian employing criteria that can be measured, easily gathered, and whose presence/absence can be interpreted as having a consequence for patient care, the author proposes a system of evaluating cancer health care benefits. CONCLUSIONS: Recognizing that classic outcomes analysis is too complex and inappropriate for business, companies and oncology providers may be able to develop obtainable measures whose presence or absence has intuitive and documented relation to the quality of cancer care.

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PubMed2001

A flexible benefits tax credit for health insurance and more.

This essay outlines a concept for a "flexible benefits" tax credit for expanding health insurance coverage and other purposes such as retirement savings plans (with potential withdrawals for higher education, first-home ownership, and catastrophic medical expenses). Two examples are presented. The advantages of a flexible benefits tax credit are considered in terms of efficient use of the budget surplus to help meet the varied (and changing) needs of American families, to eliminate major national gaps in health insurance and pension coverage, and to advance other objectives. If the budget surplus is used wisely, political decisionmakers could achieve health insurance coverage for most uninsured workers and children and assure a future with real economic security for American families.

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PubMed2003

Employers' benefits from workers' health insurance.

Even though many employers believe that health insurance and health affect employees' productivity and firms' performance, health economists typically overlook and rarely measure firms' returns on health-related investments. Some research, however, suggests that firms may benefit economically by providing health insurance coverage for workers and their families. For example, health coverage may help employers recruit and retain high-quality workers. Health may contribute to productivity by reducing the costs of absenteeism and turnover and by increasing workers' productivity. This article reviews the evidence and proposes an agenda for future research. A better understanding of the benefits to employers of offering health coverage to workers may help clarify employers' behavior and help private employers and public officials make appropriate investments in health.

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PubMed1999

Paying more and losing ground: how employer cost-shifting is eroding health coverage of working families.

This report describes the decline in employer-based health coverage between 1989 and 1996 and the underlying causes of that decline--including rapidly rising worker premiums and other economic variables. The analysis combines data from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, the National Medical Expenditures Survey for workers with employer coverage, and annual KPMG Peat Marwick Surveys. The authors employed regression analysis to determine the relative importance of economic factors on an individual's probability of having employer-based coverage--as either a worker or dependent. In addition to providing a basis for measuring the impact of various factors on the level of coverage of workers and dependents during the 1989 to 1996 period, these models also allowed projection of coverage levels in future years under alternative assumptions about premium growth, employee contribution shares, and other economic factors.

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