Employee Benefits 83% — Percentage of full-time workers 18 to 64 covered by health insurance during all or part of 2008. 78% — Percentage of workers in private industry who receive a paid vacation as one of their employment benefits. Our jobs 7.6 million — Number of workers who hold down more than one job. [...]

The proposed higher health insurance deductions will have widespread benefits, a Cabinet minister has said. The plan by the National health insurance Fund to increase the amount each worker paid per month would improve medical services, making healthcare more accessible to the poor, Medical Services minister Anyang’ Nyong’o said on Thursday. “If you make Sh800,000 [...]

In recognition of its health promotion program that has demonstrated effectiveness in improving the health of workers while at the same time promoting efficient use of resources, Medical Mutual of Ohio was selected as one of three U.S. employers to receive the C. Everett Koop National Health Award for 2010. Medical Mutual will be presented [...]

Travelers announced MedFirst – a combination of three liability coverages packaged in a single insurance policy: products/completed operations liability, errors & omissions (E&O) and information security liability. Travelers said the evolution of software and electronics for medical devices and the transferring of electronic personal identity records is creating a combination of risks in the medical [...]

Most of the nation’s leading health plans saw enrollment gains in the first quarter of 2010, a significant improvement over 2009. Between December 2009 and March 2010 top plans saw an aggregate increase of over 687,000 members. While aggregated fully-insured business continued to experience losses, the administrative services only (ASO) segment gained over 1 million [...]

PT PRUDENTIAL LIFE ASURANCE posted Rp4.5 trillion (US$500 million) in premium income in the first half of the year, or a 36 per cent increase from the same period last year. Business in Sharia insurance, which grew 38 per cent, contributed Rp534 billion to the total income, its senior Vice President William Kuan said in [...]

A coalition of law-enforcement agencies are cracking down on bogus “medical discount plans” and other plans being deceptively marketed to the unemployed and uninsured as health insurance, the Federal Trade Commission said. Attorneys general and insurance commissioners in 24 states have filed 54 enforcement actions to stop the practice, the FTC said. These include lawsuits [...]

COUNTRY DESCRIPTION Since the 1995 signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, there has been significant progress in restoring peace and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina; nonetheless, political tensions among the ethnic groups persist. Progress has been made in reconstructing the physical infrastructure that was devastated in the war, but roads, railroads, and other infrastructural improvements [...]

America’s New Health Care System Revealed UPDATED Chart Shows ObamaCare’s Bewildering Complexity Washington, DC – Four months after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,” a congressional panel has released the first chart illustrating the 2,801 page health care law President [...]

Washington, DC -Congresswomen Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20), Donna F. Edwards (MD-4), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), and Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3) held a press conference today to discuss the free preventive health care coverage that will be made available through the Affordable Care Act. An essential component of the Affordable Care Act, preventive care [...]