Day: February 11, 2016
Mayors and Cities Can Revolutionize Healthcare
“At a time when virtually every municipality is finding ways to cut back health benefits in order to balance its budget, the city of Kirkland, WA, decided to create a moonshot goal–slay the healthcare cost beast while simultaneously improving the health of the city employees.”
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Texas House Bill 1295
In 2015, the Texas Legislature adopted House Bill 1295, which added section 2252.908 of the Government Code. The law states that a governmental entity or state agency may not enter into certain contracts with a business entity unless the business entity submits a disclosure of interested parties to the governmental entity or state agency at the time the business entity submits the signed contract to the governmental entity or state agency.
High Cost of Health Care
“How is it that (health care) prices can continue to skyrocket? Unique to the healthcare market, increases in price fail to impact demand.”