America's Choice Healthplans

America's Choice Healthplans' CEO Clelland Green in the Christian Science Monitor:

'Self-directed' health plans shift risk, cost to workers

Growing practice mirrors the evolution of retirement benefits

By Fay Hansen | Special to The Christian Science Monitor
from the August 12, 2002 edition

Health-insurance costs are spiraling out of control again, and employers are demanding that employees take the hit.

They may not do so quietly. Three thousand Hershey Foods workers walked out in April, for example, when the company demanded that workers double their share of health-insurance premiums.


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