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"Managed-care plans along with employers have been reluctant to pay the cost of ongoing psychotherapy," said physician-author Timothy B. McCall in his commentary on National Public Radio's Marketplace. "Even patients with serious disorders that stem from such things as childhood sexual abuse are being limited to just a few visits. That's if they are being seen by a therapist at all . . . The only area of mental health coverage that employers and HMOs seem interested in funding is drug therapy." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"There are new options to help with CAM expenses like an FSA (Flexible Spending Arrangement) account or an HAS (Health Savings Account). Some employers offer an FSA to help you put aside pretax dollars each pay period for health-related expenses. Some generous employers even make contributions to your account. You would submit receipts for expenses not covered by insurance for reimbursement. For people who participate in a high-deductible health plan an HAS may be an option. This is another type of tax-exempt account you set up and maintain, although some employers may make contributions too." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"As the proportion of younger workers continues to decline, it will become critical for employers who seek to retain a competitive edge in the marketplace to retain and attract older workers. There are strategies employers can use to do so. As the first boomers begin to head into their sixties, some companies are making sure they hang onto their workers by offering flex time, extra benefits, and paid family leave so that employees can handle their personal issues, including taking care of aging parents of their own." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Labor unions were losing their negotiating power as companies threatened to move jobs overseas where foreign governments—not employers?paid for medical care. No one driving along Second Avenue in Des Moines in the summer of 2005 could miss the frustration of union members working in the sprawling red-brick Firestone tire factory, which sat on the city's northern edge. Workers had put up a large billboard painted with four words: export tires not jobs. Some unions had caved in." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The current institutional structure does not encourage employers to exert leadership through their plans, only to provide the standard options that other plans offer, always involving the stock market. Furthermore the plan investments that participants choose are not well diversified. In the United States in the early 1990s, most 401(k) balances were invested in guaranteed investment contracts (GICs), fixed-income investments offered by insurance companies, not indexed to inflation." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Canada's Centre for Occupational Health & Safety issued an alert in 2006 warning employers to "review their occupational hygiene programs to ensure that exposure to titanium dioxide dust is eliminated or reduced to the minimum possible." Manufacturers were advised to alter product labels to reflect this danger. The Canadian alert was based on the International Agency for Research on Cancer's classification of titanium dioxide as a carcinogen in 2006. Two studies in particular (Lee KP et al. Exp. Mol. Paf/to/._42:331-343,1985; and Lee KP et al. Toxicol. Appl. Pltarmacol." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"People give their employers their best possible effort with enthusiasm, hard work and ereativity, and employers take good care of their employees' needs. Workplaces or government cooperatives provide daycare for staff. Ample opportunity is available for advancement with mentoring, study courses, internships and educational options. Every youngster who wants to attend college can secure an education at a reasonable cost. There is adequate and affordable housing for all. The housing is attractive, ample in space and inviting." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Health care spending budgets that would have been unacceptable coming from the government were created by competing independent health plans, with employers choosing which to offer and employees usually (but not always) given a choice of several from which to choose. Positive coverage of the new plans by the media contributed to the enthusiasm. In 1990, stories about the new types of health insurance were twice as likely to be positive than negative." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "They appealed to employers because of their promise of holding down insurance costs, which were increasing between 10 percent and 18 percent per year in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And they were attractive to patients because, unlike indemnity insurance, HMOs covered most medical services and drugs with relatively small co-pays—similar to the very expensive Cadillac indemnity plans. In addition, by paying for primary care and preventive services, and with long-term incentives that favored illness prevention, these plans held out the promise of actually improving people's health." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"A recent National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance study found that overweight men pay a salary penalty of $1,000 per year per pound they're overweight, while 16 percent of employers admitted they wouldn't hire obese women under any conditions; an additional 44 percent would hire them only under certain circumstances. If prime-time television reflects popular sentiment, it's no surprise that a study at Michigan State University found that heavy TV characters are less likely to date, unlikely to have sex, and very likely to be the butt of bad jokes." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"This study, conducted at Harvard, estimated that ADHD costs Americans approximately $77 billion each year in lost wages. employers tend to be very wary of people with ADHD symptoms, and those symptoms are more frequently recognized now, as awareness of ADHD grows. Furthermore, divorce rates are also higher among adults with ADHD symptoms, approaching approximately 65 percent. Adults with ADHD are also significantly less likely than others to report satisfaction with their other relationships, including those with friends, family members, and coworkers." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"I have few qualms about waiving my professional fees for the initial assessment, if the circumstances warrant it (which is appreciated by those financially challenged patients but not by my financially challenged employers), but this is not to be expected from every doctor. Next, you should ask your primary-care physician to provide advice about your memory challenge or other cognitive symptoms." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "There are strategies employers can use to do so. As the first boomers begin to head into their sixties, some companies are making sure they hang onto their workers by offering flex time, extra benefits, and paid family leave so that employees can handle their personal issues, including taking care of aging parents of their own. Other companies have been creative in allowing seasonal employment, so that workers may spend the winter months in a warmer part of the country and work from long distance. Admittedly, the working world can be quite harsh to aging people." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Creative employers can develop strategies to maximize the productivity of their aging workforce, and tap into the cognitive advantages, wisdom, and know-how of older workers. What aging persons bring to the world Potential Disadvantages Compared to Youth ?Slower at learning new facts ?Slower retrieval of names and words ?" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The tax law encourages employers to make matching contributions to their employees' 401 (k) accounts, so there is a powerful incentive for employees to participate. Various factors have also encouraged the growth of defined contribution pension plans since the bottom of the U.S. market in 1982. Labor unions have traditionally sought defined benefit plans for their members as a way of ensuring their welfare in retirement, and the decline of unions has meant dimimshing support for these plans." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In the United States, there are fifty-eight jurisdictions that regulate workers' compensation indemnity schemes, most of which mandate that employers provide insurance themselves or purchase it from private-sector purveyors. The number of claims and the cost incurred has been an issue since the middle of the twentieth century in the United States and elsewhere, escalating dramatically since the 1980s largely because of disabling regional low back pain and other regional musculoskeletal disorders." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Even a few drivers of the eighteen-wheeled semitrucks speeding across Iowa on Interstate 80 fretted that their employers would find out they used prescription stimulants like Ritalin, Adderall, or Provigil to stay awake on their cross-country hauls. The truck drivers talked openly about their worries on an Internet blog that let them keep their identities hidden. "Hey dude. I'm in the same boat," wrote a driver who identified himself only as birddog4334. "I take Ritalin and I've got to get my first medical this week . . ." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "But in industry, scientists followed the orders of their corporate employers, who were rarely scientists themselves and whose goal was to sell a product. The two cultures dealt differently with ethical issues, Dr. Ziman said. "For most industrial scientists, an active concern about ethical issues is just asking for trouble," he wrote. "Better to treat the welfare of their firm or country as the supreme good." For years this divide between academia and industry helped protect the public from science that was manipulated for the sake of profits." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Provide tax incentives to encourage employers to provide weight management programs. Policy development ?Use the National Nutrition Summit to develop a national campaign to prevent obesity. ?Produce a Surgeon General's Report on Obesity Prevention. ?Expand the scope of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to include nutrition and to emphasize obesity prevention. ?Develop a coordinated federal implementation plan for the Healthy People 2010 nutrition and physical activity objectives. Source: Nestle, M., and Jacobson, M. F. (2000)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Recommendations for work-site programs are also made including environmental changes in work setting such as promoting healthy eating by increasing the availability of healthy food choices in cafeterias, instituting work-site campaigns to promote physical activity and healthy eating, and providing tax incentives to employers for providing weight management programs. V. CONCLUSION The goals of Healthy People 2010 are to reduce the prevalence of obesity among adults from 23% to 15% and to reduce the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents from 11% to 5% [257, 258]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Sometimes unaware, intolerant, or abusive family members, teachers, employers, or others prevent or prohibit us from working out our thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, trauma comes at us so fast and furiously that we only have time for crisis management. If a flood destroys your family home, all your effort would go toward survival with little or no time devoted to handling the traumatic stress." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Such imposition might be promulgated by employers refusing to hire smokers or drinkers, or by health care providers refusing to insure such people.25 We understand the impulse. Yet we fear that the proposed cure might be more dangerous than the disease, for to implement such a policy might seriously compromise our rights of privacy, which Fran and I, along with many others, hold quite dear. Even more, the emphasis on personal responsibility misses the point almost completely. As I wrote some time ago, the decision to begin smoking is one embedded in cultural practices." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"For instance, we can approach insurance companies, employers, and representatives of labor with a modest proposition: that heart patients targeted for the mechanical intervention of bypass surgery or stenting should first try twelve weeks of arrest-and-reverse therapy—plant-based nutrition plus, where necessary, cholesterol-reducing drug therapy." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "Across the American economic spectrum, employers are trying desperately to rein in health costs, asking workers to pick up more of the tab for their care or, in many cases, dropping insurance coverage entirely. Labor unions are discovering that they cannot negotiate contracts that keep wages apace with inflation because the cost of health care is severely eroding corporate profit margins. Companies are closing down factories and jobs at home and relocating them overseas, where wages and health costs are much lower." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"The only area of mental health coverage that employers and HMOs seem interested in funding is drug therapy. They'd rather just throw Prozac, or better yet, some generic substitute costing pennies a pill, at mental health problems."16 The strong likelihood is that the nightly fluttering of the two or three pills down her throat will be the extent of Julie's "mental health treatment." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"He could also shift the flow from fear to action circuits by making a list of potential employers to call—a more classic example of active coping—but it wouldn't affect the brain as broadly. By doing something other than sitting and worrying, we reroute our thought process around the passive-response center and dilute the fear, while at the same time optimizing the brain to learn a new scenario. Everyone's initial instinct in the face of anxiety is to avoid the situation, like a rat that freezes in its cage." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "And the town's major employers are science-centric companies such as Argonne, Fermilab, and Lucent Technologies, which suggests that the parents of many Naperville kids are highly educated. The deck—in terms of both environment and genetics—is stacked in Naperville's favor. On the other hand, when we look at Naperville, two factors really stand out: its unusual brand of physical education and its test scores. The correlation is simply too intriguing to dismiss, and I couldn't resist visiting Naperville to see for myself what was happening there." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Kellogg was also convinced by his younger brother Will to market his new breakfast foods in what became the wildly successful Kellogg Company, still one of the largest employers in Battle Creek. He died in 1943 at the age of 91. Ellen G. White, meanwhile, decided to close the Adven-tist-sponsored medical school in Battle Creek and open another one, to be named the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists. CME eventually changed its name to Loma Linda University. A LITTLE EXERCISE TO STAY YOUNG Marge Jetton always wanted to be a nurse. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Such an experience encouraged workers to take control of their own lives and to rely less on employers, to become in effect economic entities unto themselves rather than parts of a larger economic organization. People came to see that by pursuing speculative investments, they can in effect create for themselves a second job—one where they are, at last, their own boss. And in many cases it is a job that seems to provide income derived from their direct interaction with the world at large, not from their dependence on an organization." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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