Last year, Lafarge North America, a construction materialscompany with 15,500 employees, launched a major restructuring. The company hadto face up to an inevitable increase in the number of relocations. âWe began athree-month crash course to centralize our relocation policy,â says BobShepard, director of compensation.
Medical Cost Containment: A Microeconomic Approach. Anywhere from 900,000 to 1.6 million Americans travel to other countries annually for cosmetic procedures, dental surgery, and infertility treatments excluded from their insurance policies or subject to high copayments.
Health Care Cost Containment and Coverage Expansion Introduction Proposals to expand health insurance coverage are almost always accompanied by proposals to control the growth in health spending. Some people say that universal coverage cannot be achieved without cost containment, others that real cost savings will not be feasible without universal coverage. These arguments will be considered further below. Whether or not coverage expansion and cost controls are truly inseparable, it is likely that how the society goes about covering the uninsured may have implications