Selling defined contribution health plans: benefit-cutting vouchers in “employee choice” clothes
The central motivation for the switch is to shift the risk of rising health insurance costs from employers to employees, thereby undermining a multi-generational compact between management and labor.
Workers’ out-of-pocket health insurance costs to go through the roof?
If employers move to a “defined contribution” model, most likely “yes.”
Officials defend secrecy on business subsidies
Part 3 of our series on businesses incentives examines the justifications given by state and local officials who favor granting subsidies, but resist disclosing who gets them.
It’s like signing a blank check
Part 2 of our series on government incentive programs for businesses focuses on the lack of transparency at the local level.
“But everybody does it” — Cities and states addicted to soliciting for corporate favors
Are taxpayers getting their money’s worth out of public subsidies to private companies?
Here’s one we can solve
In an article about America’s physician shortage, The New York Times fails to adequately explain the causes of that medical emergency. And even though the solutions are hiding in plain sight, you will not find them in the piece. In the end, the article not only fails to move the debate forward, it lets policy makers off the hook for missing opportunity after opportunity to address the issue.
Spectacular new ways to slice and dice unemployment data since 2007
Create over 250 demographic composites, combining race and ethnicity, gender, age, and education.
Health insurance maze a major financial burden on hospitals, doctors, businesses
Annual costs related to billing and insurance estimated to exceed $400 billion.
Digging down into voter turnout
New data viz allows you to create demographic composites — using race and ethnicity, sex, age, and educational attainment — to get detailed portraits of national voter turnout and registration since 2006.
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