How We Find and Accept the "Truth"

I thought this piece from J. Sanilac was superb on the topic. I particularly dug his list of twenty "techniques that can help us to na...

Rackets, Rods, Radio Ranches & BOR Letters

After losing to Jimmy Conners sixteen times in a row, Vitas Gerulaitis finally broke through and beat his relentless tormenter. In the post...

On German Accident Insurers, Snowflakes and Obamacare’s Price Controls

The Lifelong Power of Close Relationships

From Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz writing at the WSJ :  ... What if we could study people from the time that they were teenagers all t...

Just 2 Minutes of Intense Exercise Every Day Could Extend Lifespan

From StudyFinds :  The first study included 71,893 adults without cardiovascular disease or cancer. The median participant age was 62.5 ye...

Employers Expect Major Increases to Health Care Costs in 2023

In 2022, most employers’ healthcare costs increased. According to recent industry data, current signs are also pointing to significantly hi...

New CA Employment Laws, Trends in Rx Spending, Telemedicine Challenges and More

Benefits in Brief Employees can put an extra $200 into their health care flexible spending accounts (health FSAs) next year, the IRS announ...

Compliance and Benefit News, October 3, 2022

Compliance Updates  CA Legislature Expands Pay Transparency and Data Reporting Requirements; Extends COVID Supplemental Paid Sick Leave  -...

Reducing Employer Healthcare Costs via RBP with Armstrong and Getty

 I spent a couple of segments on the air with Joe Getty this morning discussing the very latest healthcare cost increases in and out of the ...

Compliance and Benefit News Updates, Sept. 20, 2022

Tools You Can Use How Employers Should Handle MLR Rebates   - The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established medical loss ratio (MLR) rules to h...