medZERO Insights. Mercer published an update to its “Inside Employees’ Minds” study which focuses on understanding the root causes of high turnover and how employees’ needs and wants have shifted over the past year
People delay getting the care that they need for a wide variety of reasons—but whatever their reasoning, rising rates of deferred care is both a symptom and a cause of a struggling system.
Healthcare benefits are incredibly important to American employees, as a staggering 49% of workers receive healthcare through their employer. But there’s a wide variety of the types of healthcare that employers offer their workers.
Anyone who’s ever lived paycheck to paycheck knows the effect that chronic financial stress can have on your life: increased anxiety, loss of focus, inability to sleep, and even physical pain.
How does this suddenly very high rate of inflation affect the healthcare industry? And might current inflation affect related fields?
There’s no doubt that the relationship between the employee and employer is evolving quickly. The question now is: what do high-quality employees prioritize, and what strategies will attract and retain the cream of the crop?
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) have been around for a while, but more recently, people have begun to rethink the optimal way to use them. Because, done right, an HSA can be a lot more than just another way for you to cover your healthcare expenses.
Access to affordable, high quality healthcare is something that many Americans take for granted. The disparities in our healthcare system can be hard to see, but health inequity is all around us.
The Social Determinants of Health are defined as “the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.” And they play a larger role in healthcare outcomes than you might realize.
The U.S. is in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and it has never been harder for Americans to pay for care.
