We're off to see the wizard: will we find a brain and a heart for U.S. health care at the end of the yellow brick road?

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The delivery of health care services must be reformed due to the intensifying competition in the market. Companies are now requiring health care providers to present proof on the quality of the health plans offered. Aside from quality issues, the cost-effectiveness ratios of health services are also evaluated. These issues are used in resolving the problem of medical necessity. This concept has emerged in various health care debates throughout the US.

Analysis, Health insurance, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Managed care plans (Medical care)

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The retirement benefits landscape: planting the seeds of integration

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A review of retirement benefits trends over 10 years. From bundled plans in the 1990s to total integration in 2000, the trend in retirement benefit plans is a movement toward one source that will satisfy all customer and provider needs.

United States, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Pension, health, and welfare funds, Employee Benefits Management Svcs, Third Party Administration of Insurance and Pension Funds, Statistical Data Included, Forecasts and trends, Column, Organizational change, Retirement benefits, Employee benefits management services

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