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Companies Looking to Cut Healthcare Costs
March 12, 2010
FROM RETAILWIRE:
No surprise; employers are looking to cut healthcare costs. That's the finding of CVS Caremark's annual survey of employers' priorities for pharmacy benefit management services in 2010. Is it within the power of businesses to cut their healthcare costs without cutting benefits to employees?
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Not in our experience. Unless you are willing to take on enough young employees to avoid being 'age banded' by the insurance companies.
And we don't see any relief in current proposals being debated either.
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