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.
We do not know, of course, but we suspect that current patterns of cost containment, cost shifting, and perhaps some rationing (or even reduction in quality by some definitions) will fairly rapidly achieve their maximum potential in reducing the growth in the share of the GNP absorbed by health care.