Business and the Health Crisis

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the goals of the Pfizer employee wellness program are to enhance employee and dependent health by primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; to maximize the value of the benefits offered by effectively managing health care resources and to assist employees and dependents to be informed and efficient consumers of health care. The author points out that medical licensing guidelines, restrictions and procedures only contribute to rising health care costs and not to patient quality of care. The paper relates that employees' HSA accounts can be used by employees to pay their co-pays or for prescription medications.

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Introduction
Employee Wellness Programs
Medical Licensing Laws
HSA's

From the Paper:

"Our basic system of economy is that of the free market. The supply and demand for certain goods and services set price and availability and, of course, quality. For instance, there is now a huge demand for digital cameras, so the quality is rapidly increasing on every model, as each brand of camera lowers its prices several notches to compete with the other brands. The result is better products and lower prices: the essence of perfect competition or at least what passes for it in our modified free market economy. Of course, there are checks and balances worked into our economy that interfere with the free market process, but for public policy reasons. Most of these checks and balances are built in with the understanding that life is finite, and ends at some point."

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