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#### [Creating a Culture of Innovation with Employee Health Care - BoardSource](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/creating-a-culture-of-innovation-with-employee-health-care-boardsource)

This article from BoardSource, written by Mike Wurtsmith, discusses the importance of nonprofit boards playing a role in employee healthcare purchasing.

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 Dec 20, 2016

#### [Editorial: Making "More Skin in the Game"  for Patients Work - Modern Healthcare](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/editorial-making-more-skin-in-the-game-for-patients-work-modern-healthcare)

This editorial piece by Merrill Goozner, editor of Modern Healthcare, looks at the challenges of rising healthcare costs, and how those rising costs impact employees' spending in other ways.

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 Dec 2, 2016

#### [Employers struggling with ACA reporting requirements - Benefit News](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/employers-struggling-with-aca-reporting-requirements-benefit-news)

Brian M. Kalish writes for Benefit News about the enormous penalities for which employers are on the line if they do not stay in compliance with the Affordable Care Act.

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 Nov 16, 2016

#### [Public sector employers focused on stability in benefits - Benefits News](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/public-sector-employers-focused-on-stability-in-benefits-benefits-news)

This article written by Cort Olsen for Benefits News discusses Met Life's 14th Annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trend Study, which examines benefits trends in the public sector.

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 Nov 11, 2016

#### [Healthcare takes up 7.6 percent of employer budgets, study shows - Benefits Pro](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/healthcare-takes-up-7.6-percent-of-employer-budgets-study-shows-benefits-pro)

Jack Craver writes for Benefits Pro about a [new report](https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/research-and-surveys/Documents/2016-Health-Care-Report--All-Industries-All-FTEs.pdf) from the [Society of Human Resource Management](https://www.shrm.org/) that displays the effect that rising healthcare costs has had on employers and employees.

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 Nov 8, 2016

#### [Is High Deductible Health Insurance Worth the Risk? - The New York Times](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/is-high-deductible-health-insurance-worth-the-risk-the-new-york-times)

Reed Abelson of The New York Times takes an alternate – and more positive – look at employee reactions to high deductible health plans (HDHPs).

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 Nov 4, 2016

#### [How Companies of All Sizes Can Access Big Benefits - Mercer Signal](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/how-companies-of-all-sizes-can-access-big-benefits-mercer-signal)

Todd Renner writes for Mercer Signal about “a whole new ecosystem of health benefits” that support recruitment and retention of talented staff. High deductible health plans (HDHPs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) are noted as good options even for small businesses to consider.

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 Nov 1, 2016

#### [Profiting from health: The self-insurance story - MedCity News](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/profiting-from-health-the-self-insurance-story-medcity-news)

In this article for MedCity News by Adam Schaefer, we look at the reality employers face when it comes to purchasing fully-funded group insurance (the standard group policy from an insurance carrier).

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 Oct 25, 2016

#### [5 questions advisers are always asked – and how to answer them - Employee Benefit Advisor](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/5-questions-advisers-are-always-asked-and-how-to-answer-them-employee-benefit-advisor)

As open enrollment approaches, employees begin to turn to their employers, human resources advisors, and benefit advisors to understand the benefits being offered to them. Aldor Delp writes for Employee Benefit Advisor about the top questions employees ask brokers.

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 Oct 21, 2016

#### [Employers Shift Higher Health Care Costs to Workers  - The Wall Street Journal](https://blog.nonstophealth.com/employers-shift-higher-health-care-costs-to-workers-the-wall-street-journal)

Rachel Emma Silverman of the Wall Street Journal examines the rise of high deductible health plans (HDHPs), and how in 2017 84% of large employers plan to offer an HDHP to employees (35% will only offer an HDHP as an option). The average deductible of an employee only plan is now approximately $1500.

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