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The Perfect Storm: Rising Health Care Costs
The Perfect Storm: Rising Health Care Costs (581k This document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Click here for help.) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
This issue of Critical Issues, titled "The Perfect Storm: Rising Health Care Costs," explores the complexities of a major challenge facing school boards - what to do about skyrocketing health insurance costs. It details what goes into this perfect storm, from the real cost drivers to how Oregon school boards are successfully controlling health costs. We explore the concept of government-run health insurance pools and how they work (and don’t work) in nearby states. And, we try to predict the future - what we all must do together to survive this storm with the "boat intact." (16 pages)
 
Blue button (.gif) A Perfect Storm: Rising Health Care Costs
Blue button (.gif) Collective Bargaining: Confrontation Reigns Nationwide
Blue button (.gif) Unions Dig in to Protect Benefits
Blue button (.gif) National Survey: Turbulent Forces Drive Benefit Costs Up
Blue button (.gif) How Do Schools Compare?
Blue button (.gif) Drug Costs: A Major Stormfront
Blue button (.gif) Oregon Success Stories: The ‘Four C’s’ of Controlling Insurance Costs
Blue button (.gif) OSBA Health Insurance Trust: A Statewide Benefit Pool for School Employees
Blue button (.gif) Alternatives to a Government-Run Monopoly
Blue button (.gif) How Are Neighboring States Weathering the Storm?
Blue button (.gif) Health Care Facts
Blue button (.gif) Batten Down the Hatches: Engage Employees
Blue button (.gif) Tillamook: Comparing Benefits in the Private Sector
Blue button (.gif) Involving Your Employees
Blue button (.gif) A Look Ahead: Our Approach to Health Care Must Change
OSBA Resources
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Blue button (.gif) OSBA's PR in Action subscription - Includes employee wellness newsletters you can reproduce and distribute. The archive on this topic has enough newsletters on a variety of topics to fill a booklet. Subscribers have access to several years of back issues.
Other Resources
Blue button (.gif) Interested in starting up, or polishing, your employee wellness program? - Check out the online health and wellness resources offered by BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon.
Blue button (.gif) Multnomah ESD Employee Wellness Website  - For a good example of an employee wellness Website, with links to wellness programs, check out the Multnomah ESD.
Blue button (.gif) Online clearinghouse for employee wellness programs
Blue button (.gif) Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
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Kaiser Permanente

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