Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk— Health Care

• Payroll employment up in April 2013 (05/06/2013)
• Medical and retirement benefits, March 2012 (04/26/2013)
• Employee contributions to medical care benefits costs (04/16/2013)
• Payroll employment up in February 2013 (03/11/2013)
• Payroll employment in January 2013 (02/04/2013)
• Employee benefits in private industry and state and local government, March 2012 (07/26/2012)
• Employee medical, retirement, and leave benefits, March 2012 (07/17/2012)
• Employer-provided health insurance in state and local government (06/27/2012)
• Eldercare in 2011 (06/26/2012)
• Employer-provided sick leave benefits, March 2009 (03/07/2012)
• Employer-provided health care benefits (02/29/2012)
• Medical care benefits, March 2011 (01/24/2012)
• Workers in abolished occupations (11/03/2011)
• Outpatient prescription drug coverage, March 2010 (09/26/2011)
• Medical plan benefits for physical therapy, kidney dialysis, and other benefits in 2009 (07/29/2011)
• Maternity care benefits among medical plan participants, 2009 (06/30/2011)
• Labor costs in the auto industry (04/27/2011)
• State and local government employee benefits, March 2010 (03/09/2011)
• Top searches on the BLS website (01/21/2011)
• Health insurance costs to employers and employees, 1999 to 2009 (11/01/2010)
• Access to employer-provided benefits among full- and part-time private industry workers, March 2010 (08/06/2010)
• Supplemental pay in the healthcare industry, 2007–10 (07/29/2010)
• Health insurance benefit costs in private industry, March 2010 (06/14/2010)
• Hourly earnings of healthcare practitioner and technical occupations, by work level, 2008 (05/03/2010)
• Consumer out-of-pocket health care expenditures in 2008 (03/25/2010)
• Earnings of healthcare workers in hospitals, 2008 (03/15/2010)
• Take-up rates for medical care plans among State and local government and private industry workers, March 2009 (01/08/2010)
• Illnesses and injuries among State and local government workers in 2008 (11/04/2009)
• Declines in occupational illnesses and injuries in 2008 (11/03/2009)
• Stand-alone dental and vision plans: employee access and participation by establishment size (11/02/2009)
• Demographics of New York City health care employment (10/07/2009)
• Employee access to medical care benefits in metropolitan areas, December 2008 (09/29/2009)
• Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/2009)
• Wages in healthcare practitioner and technical occupations (02/05/2009)
• Changes in health care spending patterns of older Americans (01/05/2009)
• Not-for-profit sector and employment (12/31/2008)
• Employer shares of medical plan premiums, March 2008 (11/05/2008)
• Workplace injury and illness rates by industry in 2007 (10/27/2008)
• Variation in medical care benefits by occupation, 2008 (09/25/2008)
• Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/2008)
• Retirement and medical care benefits in 2008 (08/08/2008)
• Surgical technologists (07/23/2008)
• Contributing towards medical care coverage (01/09/2008)
• Medical care benefits for lower and higher wage workers (01/03/2008)
• Health care plans in 2007 (08/23/2007)
• Medical care inflation in 2006 (08/03/2007)
• Health benefit costs by region (07/06/2007)
• Health benefit costs and establishment size, March 2007 (06/22/2007)
• Health savings accounts (04/05/2007)
• Flexible benefits and reimbursement accounts (04/04/2007)
• Healthcare employment for workers without a bachelor’s degree (09/26/2006)
• Medical care inflation in 2005 (06/20/2006)
• Health care plans and establishment size in 2005 (01/30/2006)
• Treating cancer with technology (09/15/2005)
• Healthcare spending in 2003 (07/08/2005)
• Wages in for-profit and nonprofit private hospitals (07/01/2005)
• Cost of health benefits: $1.64 per hour in March 2005 (06/17/2005)
• Insurance coverage for mental healthcare (05/05/2005)
• Increases in prescription-drug copayments, 1993–2000 (10/04/2004)
• The recent decline in medical and retirement plan coverage (09/28/2004)
• Cost-saving incentives in prescription-drug coverage (09/21/2004)
• Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2003 (05/24/2004)
• Medical care inflation slowed last year (05/20/2004)
• Employee contributions for medical insurance premiums (04/28/2004)
• Largest rise in consumer spending in 2002: health care (11/25/2003)
• Health care plans in 2003 (09/30/2003)
• Employee contributions for medical insurance in 2003 (09/25/2003)
• Retirement expenditures for Whites, Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin (08/07/2003)
• Out-of-pocket medical spending: fee-for-service vs. HMO coverage (07/09/2003)
• Accuracy of growth projections for health care occupations (05/28/2003)
• Another rise in medical care inflation (04/16/2003)
• Health services had biggest employment gain in 2002 (03/27/2003)
• ECI and Medicare payments (01/06/2003)
• Preventive care provisions not commonly described in plans (12/31/2002)
• Consumer health care spending in 2001 (12/10/2002)
• Cost of health benefits in private industry, March 2002 (07/15/2002)
• Continued acceleration in medical care inflation (05/23/2002)
• Decline in traditional fee-for-service health plans in 1990s (03/19/2002)
• Some service industries grow faster in recessions (11/30/2001)
• Slower rise in out-of-pocket health care spending in 1999 (07/06/2001)
• Health benefits 5.6 percent of total compensation (07/05/2001)
• Fitness, wellness benefits moderately prevalent for State, local government workers (02/21/2001)
• Managed care more common among State and local government employees (02/07/2001)
• Producer prices for health care services in 1999 (10/17/2000)
• Part-timers earn more in some health care jobs (08/29/2000)
• Retirees spending more on health insurance (07/13/2000)
• Health care 5½ percent of compensation (07/12/2000)
• Medical care inflation up in 1999 (06/26/2000)
• Trends in health insurance (05/16/2000)
• Annual wages of nurses, doctors, and other health care workers (12/23/1999)
• Health insurance now accounts for biggest share of health care dollar (08/23/1999)
• Hospitals have highest number of occupational injuries (08/18/1999)
• Educational and health services employment most extensive in Northeast (08/16/1999)
• Consumer prices for medical care accelerate in 1998 (06/07/1999)
• In small firms, blue-collar, service workers least covered by health care benefits (05/26/1999)
• Slower growth in health services earnings in the 90s (05/17/1999)
• Health employment not as strong as it used to be (05/06/1999)
• Employers costs for Medicare, workers’ compensation rise from 1966-98 (04/28/1999)
• Health care costs fluctuate with employer cost-containment efforts (04/08/1999)
• Medical care spending climbs again in 1997 (03/16/1999)
• More workers covered by HMOs and PPOs (01/08/1999)