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Five years ago, the Newark-based financial services giant began encouraging its employees to become better health care consumers, "and when employees really get involved in their own health, they ask the right questions," he said. "They start to ask, 'what will this test do? What are you going to do differently because of this test?'"
Crighton spoke to a group of about 85 businesspeople earlier this month in Newark, during aconference sponsored by the New YorkBusiness Group on Health, whose members are employers in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut A key message of the conference was that employers should follow Prudential's example - don't just address the health of your own employees, but also take on the daunting task of transforming the health care system itself The majority of Americans get health coverage through their employers, and while national health care reform seems to be stalled in Congress, the billions that employers spend on health care gives them a voice in improving the quality of care and squeezing waste out of the system, said Laurel Pickering executive director of the New YorkBusiness Group on Health.See the full content of this document
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Getting in Shape to Lower Health Costs
K. ANDREW CRIGHTON, chief medical officer of Prudential Financial, is convinced employers can help make Americans healthier - no matter what happens to health care reform in Washington.
Five years ago, the Newark-based financial services giant began ...See the full content of this document
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