The Wall Street Journal sponsored an unusually spirited and sophisticated debate (with video) on controlling health care costs on Wednesday, with Business Roundtable-member CEOs providing insights and from their own companies' experiences. Gary Loveman of Caesars Entertainment, who chairs BRT's... Continue Reading
The Department of Health and Human Services last week released data on prices that hospitals charge for the 100 most common inpatient procedures paid under Medicare. (CMS data, HHS news release). This is a significant moment in the decades-long road that Business Roundtable CEOs have been... Continue Reading
All across the nation, businesses are embarking on ambitious programs to help employees improve their quality of life while keeping health-care costs under control. Wellness and prevention programs are making a difference when it comes to chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure,... Continue Reading
Business Roundtable-member CEOs Gary Loveman of Caesars Entertainment and Randall Stephenson of AT&T briefed reporters Wednesday on BRT's recommendations to modernize Social Security and Medicare, reforms necessary to preserve the programs while putting the United States on a long-term path... Continue Reading
Two recent reports document the American bane of over-litigiousness and capricious legal systems. First, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Research, "State Lawsuit Climates," based on a survey of 1.125 in-house counsel and other company attorneys, the men and women who... Continue Reading