Averting the collision between rising health care costs and corporate survival

✍ Scribed by Ken Blanchard; Dee Edington

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 87 KB
• Volume: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1087-8149
• DOI: 10.1002/ltl.338

✦ Synopsis

of our sickness-oriented health system continue to rise while the health and resultant productivity of the U.S. workforce declines. To reverse this trend, executives must acknowledge the interconnectedness between health care costs and people's vitality and productivity. This will require a change of thinking and then a change in behavior in most U.S. executive suites.