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Ensuring fairness in health care coverage : an employer's guide to making good decisions on tough issues / Matthew K. Wynia and Abraham P. Schwab.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wynia, Matthew K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employer-sponsored health insurance--United States.
- Employer-sponsored health insurance.
- Health insurance--United States.
- Health insurance.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 225 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : American Management Association, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many employers have begun to require employees who smoke to pay more for health insurance, including: PepsiCo, Northwest Airlines and Gannett, as well as some public employers, such as the states of Alabama and Georgia. At Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, company employees who are obese automatically are charged higher insurance premiums - as much as $480 a year - unless they agree to take part in wellness programs. An employee fired for smoking was even the plot of a recent episode of Boston Legal. As you can see from the included articles, policies such as these are becoming increasingly common - but will still stir up controversy. This is the only book available on the subject from as trusted a voice as the American Medical Association [JW: AH is checking to see if there are any interesting details about the study].
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- PART I The Issues and Principles of Fair Health Care Decisions
- What's Fair?
- Why Worry?
- Why Is Health Insurance for Employees My Problem, Anyway?
- PART II The Five Ethical Guideposts of Fair Decision-Making
- A Clear Choice
- Get It Together
- You Can Count On It
- The Value Equation
- Stay Flexible
- Putting It All Together
- APPENDIX A The Expert Advisory Panel on Benefits Determination
- APPENDIX B Steering by the Rearview Mirror Factors That Shape Employee Health Plans
- Selected Resources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.
- Digitized and made available by: Books24x7.com.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-12868-6
- 9786611128685
- 0-8144-3016-3
- OCLC:
- 815543589
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