Gen Z and Millennials: All About the Benefits, Not Just the Benjamins

Competition for employees is fierce, but if employers are trying to attract Gen Z to their workforce by focusing on perks like free avocado toast and ping-pong tables, they’re going about it all wrong. A recent study from Lincoln Financial Group (NYSE: LNC) and the Center for Generational Kinetics shows that traditional benefits like retirement plans and insurance are most important for attracting and retaining Gen Z and Millennials.

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Payers, Business Groups Roll Out Massive Lobbying Effort to Get Delay for ACA Insurer Tax

Insurer and business groups are ramping up their efforts to delay a $16 billion tax mandated by the Affordable Care Act that is set to go back into effect next year. 

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Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ Math

Elizabeth Warren’s “Medicare for all” proposal would make substantial shifts to how the United States pays for its health care system. She would eliminate most other forms of coverage, including private insurance, and provide all Americans with a generous government-run plan.

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The Eight Big Problems with Warren’s Medicare-for-All Plan

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released her spending plan to finance Medicare-for-all, a single-payer health-care scheme that would eliminate private insurance.

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Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Launch a $90-million Fight Against California Labor Law

Uber, Lyft and DoorDash submitted a California ballot measure Tuesday to exempt their business operations from a sweeping new state labor law.

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Wildfires, Power Outages Cause Unprecedented Healthcare Disruption in California

Healthcare leaders told The Bee that they are confronting a level of disruption to delivering care and running their businesses that they have never seen in their careers as a result of the California wildfires and Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s planned blackouts.

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One Big Step: Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1 Billion

Google, the company that helped make it fun to just sit around surfing the web, is jumping into the fitness-tracker business with both feet, buying Fitbit for about $2.1 billion.

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Court Orders California Insurance Company Conserved in Another Development in Applied Battle

A San Mateo County Superior Court on Monday evening issued an order appointing the California Department of Insurance’s Conservation and Liquidation Office as conservator of California Insurance Co.

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White House Distances Itself From Pelosi Plan to Lower Drug Prices

The White House is distancing itself from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) plan to lower drug prices, emphasizing support for a bipartisan plan in the Senate instead.

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Medicare Beneficiaries Spent an Average of $5,460 Out-of-Pocket for Health Care in 2016, With Some Groups Spending Substantially More

The average person with traditional Medicare coverage paid $5,460 out of their own pocket for health care in 2016...

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