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KEEP EMPLOYEES HEALTHY

Controlling Health Status and Healthcare Cost of Employees

Force 6: Employee Health. With the dramatically increasing cost of healthcare and the fact that in the United States, more than 40 percent of healthcare costs are paid by employers, a serious problem is developing. Companies can no longer sustain the projected increase in healthcare costs. At the same time, employees globally are increasingly unhealthy, creating problems with productivity, absenteeism, and accidents. Reducing or eliminating employee healthcare is not a viable option. New and creative solutions are developing that can help enable employers to control employee healthcare costs by shifting to employer-funded individual healthcare and taking dramatic ...

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