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Employees Wrongly Think 'You Get What You Pay For' in Health Care

Date:11/10/2008

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"This important research shows we clearly have a long way to go in gaining peoples' understanding of the relationship of cost and quality in health care," observed Jack Mahoney, MD, former medical director of Pitney Bowes.

MBGH also released today a white paper on the focus group research, The Employees Readiness to Adopt Value-Based Benefit Design Strategies. The paper is publicly available and can be accessed on MBGH's website: http://www.mbgh.org/index.php?t=initiatives/Readiness&.

About the research

The Readiness to Change project was funded by GlaxoSmithKline. The ROC Group, a Chicago-based benefits communication firm, assisted in developing and conducting focus groups.

About the Midwest Business Group on Health (http://www.mbgh.org)

The non-profit Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) is one of the nation's leading business groups of private and public employers. MBGH's 96 members represent over 2 million lives, spending more than $2.5 billion on health care benefits on an annual basis. MBGH offers employers a variety of health benefit educational seminars, networking opportunities, quality and community initiatives. MBGH is a member of the National Business Coalition on Health.

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