Because of our decades of experience and the reliability of the Iowa Employer Benefits Study© over the years, we’re often invited to comment on issues like employment benefits, healthcare and other related topics. Here are some news stories and professional journal publications you might find of interest.
- Guest opinion: Would having more ‘Blues’ make us happier? (Business Record, November 19, 2020)
- Medical association report: U.S. health insurance markets ‘even more highly concentrated’ (Business Record, October 30, 2020)
- U.S. must stop relying on other nations for drugs (Des Moines Register Opinion, June 4, 2020)
- Proposed health care merger raises red flags (Des Moines Register Opinion, September 14, 2019)
- Presidential candidates, don’t take money from health care special interests (Des Moines Register, August 19, 2019)
- Healthcare in Iowa: Rising prices lead employers to find cost-effective comprehensive measures (Business Record, December 14, 2018)
- Health insurance premiums climbing in Iowa (Sioux City Journal, September 4, 2018)
- Iowa employers face steep health insurance price increases, but keep offering benefits (Des Moines Register, September 4, 2018)
- Think Piece – Employers Beware: Three Masked-Myths about Curtailing Health Costs (Business Record, June 2, 2017)
- Study: Iowa employer health premium increases moderate under ACA (Business Record, October 6, 2016)
- Rising cost doesn’t dissuade employers from offering health insurance (Des Moines Register, October 6. 2016)
- Congress should do more to help average workers (Des Moines Register Editorial, September 9, 2015)
- Iowa employers’ health insurance costs jump 7.7 percent (Des Moines Register, September 8, 2015)
- Health insurance premiums up sharply for single workers (Business Record, September 8, 2015)
- It’s time for an answer: Is health care safer now? (Des Moines Register, November 30, 2014)
- Iowa health insurance premiums rise moderately (Business Record, September 11, 2014)
- Employers stick with health insurance (Des Moines Register, September 11, 2014)
- Patient safety scores should be mandatory (Des Moines Register, July 13, 2014)
- Employment Status Matters: A Statewide Survey of Quality-of-Life, Prevention Behaviors, and Absenteeism and Presenteeism (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, July 2014)
- Health providers get C’s from employers (Des Moines Register, April 18, 2014)
- Shift trims Obamacare mandate’s effect in Iowa in ’15 (Des Moines Register, February 12, 2014)
- An Employee Total Health Management-Based Survey of Iowa Employers (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, December, 2013)
- Health insurance offerings fall (Des Moines Register, September 12, 2013)
- Survey points to decline in employer-sponsored health insurance (Des Moines Business Record, September 12, 2013)
- Iowa employers embrace for Obamacare (Des Moines Sunday Register, March 3, 2013)
- Insurers expect big premium increases, shifting rates in 2014 (Des Moines Business Record, February 15, 2013)
- ‘Lindex’ measures benefits in Iowa industries, districts (Des Moines Register, January 17, 2013)
- Only 18 states and D.C. will run insurance exchanges (American Medical News, December 24, 2012)
- Q-C employers adjust to rising health insurance costs (Quad-City Business Journal, January 17, 2013)
- 7% Iowa Health insurance premium rise smallest in 14 years (The Gazette, October 18, 2012)
- Health care costs concern business owners (Des Moines Register, October 24, 2012)
- Health care cost surge takes a breather (Des Moines Register, October 14, 2012)
- What Businesses Need to Know Now to Prepare for Health Reform (Des Moines Business Record, August 31, 2012)
- Health Care: Lind State-Wide Survey (Des Moines Business Record, August 31, 2012)
- A Weighty Issue (IABiz Magazine, Fall 2011)
- What Will Cost More in 2012? (Des Moines Register, January 8, 2012)
- Survey: 5.6% of Iowa employers plan to drop coverage due to health care reform (Business 380.com <http://380.com> , September 6, 2011)
- Free health coverage for lawmakers is even sweeter than other Iowans’ (Des Moines Register, October 12, 2011)
- Can consumer-driven health plans tame the health insurance beast? (Business 380.com <http://380.com> , May 1, 2011)
- Public Baffled By Health Care Arguments (National Public Radio, August 3, 2009)
- Data Guru (Employee Benefit Advisor, January 2010)
