HEALTHCARE

Employees beware: Higher healthcare costs ahead

Large employers expect big increases in healthcare costs in 2012, and say they'll pass more and more of those costs on to their workers. That's the result of a new survey by the National Business Group on Health, a trade group for these large companies.
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Siemens results hit by weak healthcare unit

Siemens AG , Europe's largest engineering group, cautioned that global economic risks were increasing as its healthcare unit dragged quarterly results below expectations.
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Automakers gun for healthcare savings in UAW talks

Worried about its rising healthcare costs, General Motors Co tried several years ago to buy a bar adjacent to its Janesville, Wisconsin assembly plant so it could eliminate a source of junk food and alcohol.
Unemployed worker Pollock carries a sign outside Cobo Center to demonstrate for jobs and good wages before start of press days at North American International Auto show in Detroit, Michigan

Detroit's dilemma: How to share gains with UAW

Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest profits in a decade and rewarded patient investors with a 14-fold increase in its share price.

Pawlenty Admits Debate Mistake

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty took to his Twitter account, and later in an interview on Fox News, to fix the score on what many considered a missed opportunity to go after fellow presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, during the Republican primary debate earlier this week.
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Nearly 28 pct American firms using cloud computing

Illinois based computer hardware and software supplier, in a poll conducted last month, confirmed that nearly 28 percent of all US organizations are using cloud computing and another 73 percent reported that their first access to cloud was through a single cloud application
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Republican Governors Fight to Reduce Medicaid Funding

Seeking to contain ballooning costs, Republican governors are pressuring the Obama administration to relax federal requirements dictating how many poor and disabled people states must provide healthcare through Medicaid.

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