Health Benefits

Why More Employees Are Saying No To Company Health Insurance

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Cost-of-Healthcare, Workers, Health Insurance Costs, Employee Benefits, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Health Coverage Costs, Health Coverage, Health-Insurance-Industry, Health Insurance, Health Benefits, Rising-Costs-of-Health-Care, Small Business News

A primary factor driving employees towards being uninsured might not be that they aren't being offered health benefits by their company, but that the ...

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FTC Decides Pom Wonderful Falsely Advertised

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Pomegranate, Juice, Erectile Dysfunction, Pomegranate Health Benefits, Prostate Cancer, Ftc, Federal Trade Commission, Pom Wonderful, Health Benefits, Business News

As part of a larger ruling on an FTC complaint, an administrative law judge on Monday issued a cease-and-desist order against Pom Wonderful to stop it...

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The Healthy Perks Of Having A Pup

Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Health Benefits of Dogs, Health Benefits of Pets, Video, Pets, Youbeauty, Healthy-People-Healthy-Pets, Dogs, Health Benefits, Healthy Living News

By Jessica Gross for YouBeauty Picture it: You come home from a long day to your dog bounding toward you with the unbridled excitement equivalent t...

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Older Women's Stake in Health Reform

Debra L. Ness | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Health Care, Supreme Court, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Older Women, Women's Health, Obamacare, Health Benefits, Politics News

Access to affordable, quality health care is central to the well-being of older women. It is a key determinant of their quality of life, their economic security and their ability to thrive, prosper and participate fully in our society.

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7 Health Benefits of Going Barefoot Outside

Mind Body Green | Stephanie Slon | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Gps-Soul, Health Benefits, Healthy Living News

Even though we've come to think of them as a vital part of our lives, only 20 percent of the world's population today wears shoes. Although in western...

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New Orleans Tries to Hold on to Its Mail Plant During USPS Cuts

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: White House, U.S. Senate, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Baton Rouge, National Association of Letter Carriers, November Elections, U.S. Congress, New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport, American Postal Workers Union, Jobs, Hurricane Katrina, Usps, Dallas, Health Benefits, Politics News

Plans to move regional, mail-processing activities from Loyola Avenue in downtown New Orleans to Baton Rouge are not a done deal, according to the U.S. Postal Service and union spokesmen last week.

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Coffee vs. Diabetes

Jonathan Galland | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Personal Health, Health, Coffee Benefits Health, Coffee Health, Healthy Living Health News, Diet and Nutrition, Coffee, Health Effects Coffee, Health Benefits, Coffee Benefits, Healthy Living News

Sometimes the latest health news talks about some obscure supplement you've never heard of. Or a health food that has all the appeal of freshly-cut grass.

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Healthcare Infected With Tapeworms: ACA, ACO, EHB and IPAB

Deane Waldman | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Accountable Care Organizations, Healthcare Costs, Obama Affordable Care, Obama Health Care, Health Benefits, Politics News

Washington's recent effort at reform of healthcare has produced the mother tapeworm, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA protects the bureaucracy, not the patients.

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Things Get Worse For U.S. Postal Service

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Video, Holiday Shopping, Congress, Shipping Services, Bankruptcy, Retirement Pension, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, Stamps, Usps, Reuters, Mail, US Postal Service, Health Benefits, Business News

* Postal Service says mail volume down 6 pct * Package business grew due to holiday shopping * Agency lost $5.1 bln last...

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Move Over Pomegranate, Beet Juice Is About to Take Over

Phil Lempert | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Juice, Polyphenols, Beets, Antioxidants, Heart Diseease, Beverage Trends, Beverages, Health Benefits, Food News

There are many variations depending on the European culture, but here in the United States the borscht found in jars on supermarket shelves is a simple recipe of water, beets, sugar, salt and citric acid. That is, if you can find it in your supermarket.

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The Office Of Tomorrow: An Older Workforce Takes Shape

management.fortune.cnn.com | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Workforce, Future-Trends, Aging, Older-Workforce, Retirement, Older Workers, Human Resources, Recession, Health Benefits, Fifty News

FORTUNE -- A man parks his bike and unbuckles his helmet to reveal baldness and salt-and-pepper eyebrows. A woman in orthopedic shoes makes her way in...

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'Tis The Season! Are You A Giver Or A Receiver?

YourTango | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Holidays, Yourtango, Social Support, Relationships, Giving and Receiving, Relationship Study, Holiday Gifts, Health Benefits, Women News

'Tis the season to be giving and receiving! And no, I'm not talking about sex, although you wish I was. Actually, I'm talking about a recent UCLA s...

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The Health Benefits Of Caregiving?

New York Times | Paula Span | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Paula Span, Boston University, Health Post50, Caregiving, Stress Reduction, New Old Age, Health Benefits, Fifty News

Could there be measurable benefits to your health, and to your brain in particular, from being a caregiver? It’s practically become an article of...

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23,000 Nurses To Strike Over Benefits Cuts

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: California Nurse Strike, Video, Benefits, Nurse Strike, Sutter Health, California Hospitals Strike, California Nurses Association Strike, Health Insurance, California Nurses Strike, Benefits Cuts, Kaiser Permanente, Health Benefits, Business News

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Nurses at nearly three dozen hospitals in Northern and Central California are set to go on strike over benefit cu...

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Employers Consider Ending Health Benefits

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Health Care Law, Employee Benefits, Employer Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Employee Health Care, Health Coverage, Obama Health Care Law, Health-Insurance, Health Benefits, Health Care Benefits, Business News

INDIANAPOLIS — A new survey from a large benefits consultant says nearly one of every 10 mid-sized or big employers expects to stop offering hea...

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How To Make A Difference (PHOTO)

Carolita Johnson | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Social Networking, General Strike, Oscarina, Carolita Johnson, Middle Class, Pensions, Jobs, Uprising, Health Benefits, Comedy News

You'd think there'd be some kind of general uprising against the way large corporations are still not raising salaries or even hiring until they get more tax breaks. Good thing there's social media, or they'd be quaking in their boots...

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Macy's NYC Employees Could Strike For First Time In Nearly Forty Years

Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Herald Square, Pension, Strike, Rwdsu, United Food and Commercial Workers, Macy's Inc, Work Conditions, Better Wages, Standard & Poor's, New York Times, Health Benefits, Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, Business News

NEW YORK (Phil Wahba and Roy Strom) - Workers at four New York City area Macy's Inc stores, including its Herald Square flagship, could strike lat...

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The Health Benefits of Furry Four-Legged Friends

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Zoonoses, Dr. Braunstein, Pets, Cedars Sinai, Pet Ownership, Health, Health Benefits, Elderly, Elderly Exercise, Exercise, Dogs, Los Angeles News

Pets bring a special companionship and joy to the lives of their owners. But our furry, four-legged friends can offer even more boons, keeping us active and involved in the world and boosting our health.

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Study: 9 Million Laid-Off Americans Lost Health Insurance In Last Two Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Affordable Care Act, Unemployment, Obamacare, Health Reform, Recession, Health Benefits, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- During the last two years, 57 percent of Americans who lost a job that provided them health insurance -- nearly 9 million people -- coul...

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Finding God And Health In The Experience Of Storytelling

Dori Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Church, Empathy, Personal Narratives, Christianity, Christians, Storytelling, God, Blood Pressure, Testimony, Health Benefits, Religion News

When people are invited into a safe space to tell their own stories, a mystery unfolds that kindles an authentic connection. It feels as if one of Jesus' parables is getting re-enacted before our very eyes.

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Separate but Equal: Gen. Conway's Housing Project and the Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell

Ian Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Equality, Housing, Homosexual, Sexual Orientation, Obama, Health Insurance, Marine Corps, Legislation, Civil Rights, Homosexual Rights, James Conway, Defense of Marriage Act, State Department, Marriage Equality, Jerrold Nadler, Dod, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Marines, Gay Rights, Dadt, Military, Segregation, Department of Defense, Separate but Equal, Doma, Inequality, Gay Marriage, Health Benefits, Politics News

General James Conway's comments last week are illustrative of a push to create a second-class status for gay troops once DADT is repealed.

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Medicaid Cuts Hurt At The State Level

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicaid, Medicaid Cuts, Medicaid Budget, Medicaid Enrollment, Health Care, Health Benefits, Home News

CHICAGO — In Illinois, a pharmacist closes his business because of late Medicaid payments. In Arizona, a young father's liver transplant is canc...

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Meditation: The New Corporate Benefit that Pays Huge Dividends

Joel Brokaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stress, Insurance Premiums, Incense, Corporate Benefit, Executive Management Associates, Tm, Nancy Slomowitz, U.S. Department of Transportation, Meditation, Transcendental Meditation, Stress Reduction, Health Benefits, Business News

Several years ago, Nancy Slomowitz was so fed up that she wanted to walk away from the highly successful and profitable corporation she had built. He...

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What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French?

Debra Ollivier | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: French Women, French Feminism, Sarkozy, French Strike, Debra Ollivier, Retirement, Health Benefits, France, World News

These French strikes are far less about two years of retirement and far more about preserving an infrastructure of social benefits that are sacrosanct to the French and the bedrock of their culture.

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PHOTOS: Almond, Hemp, Rice, Raw And More: Your Guide To Milk

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conventional Milk, Rice Milk, Milk, Factory Farms, Grass-Fed, Almond Milk, Cafos, Hemp Milk, Health, Antibiotics, Raw Milk, Organic Milk, Rbgh, Health Benefits, Slidepollajax, Rgbh, Bovine Growth Hormone, Green News

For something so traditional, so normal, so American, milk has spurred a huge battle among the food conscious. Choosing your milk has become a stateme...

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