Containing the Health Care Cost Spiral Author:Mary Frances Callan, David C. Yeager With health care costs already spiralling to crisis proportions, human resource managers are being forced to face and deal with an array of complex and perplexing problems: deteriotating employer-employee relations, threats to company profits, changes to the structure of medical care. This book takes a thorough look at a program developed and su... more »ccessfully employed by one organization to control its runaway healthcare costs and achieve substantial savings. Unlike programs which just shift the cost burden onto consumers while denying them input into the decision-making process, this details a co-operative approach. Focusing on shared problem-solving as well as shared responsibility, it shows how the combined efforts of all affected groups can produce remarkable results. The principles, strategies, and techniques set forth in "Containing The Health Care Cost Spiral" are adaptable to the special circumstances of almost any organization.« less