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.
It may be worth noting, however, that from a socialist perspective, this is a problem with theCanadian system. While there is greater cost containment through the provincial health care agencynegotiating the fee schedule, doctors in Canada -- as in the U.S. -- are still the gatekeepers in th esystem.