In the Spotlight
CDC's LeanWorks Equips Workplaces to Improve Wellness and Cut Health Care Costs
"CDC's LEAN Works! (Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition)" is a FREE web-based resource that offers interactive tools and evidence-based resources to design effective worksite obesity prevention and control programs, including an obesity cost calculator to estimate how much obesity is costing your company and how much savings your company could reap with different workplace interventions. Click here to visit the site.
Staying Covered After Job Loss
The U.S. Department of Labor has published an online toolkit to help people keep health coverage and manage retirement benefits after losing a job. Click here to visit the site.
Number of Uninsured Could Hit 54 Million by 2019
The rising cost of health care and health insurance pose a serious threat to the fiscal future of the United States. Without substantial policy change, the number of nonelderly uninsured is expected to rise from 45 million today to 54 million in 2019. These findings from two new reports by the Congressional Budget Office highlight just how challenging achieving universal health coverage will be. Read a summary from the CBO Director here.
2008 Employer Health Benefits Survey Released
The Kaiser Family Foundation has released the 2008 version of its annual Employer Health Benefits Survey. View the press release here, or download the full report here.
Premiums versus Paychecks: A Growing Burden for Workers
In Virginia, health insurance premiums are rising considerably faster than workers’ earnings - meaning the ranks of the uninsured will continue to grow. Check out this compelling report from Families USA. Go...
Dental Safety Net Providers
The Virginia Health Care Foundation offers a quick & convenient directory of safety net dental care providers by locality. Go...
New Resource for Small Area Health Insurance Estimates
The U.S. Census Bureau has published an interactive website which produces state and local uninsured estimates by age, race/ethnicity, sex, and income. The estimates are for 2005.
