This is called consumer driven health care....basically they entice you into doing preventative healthcare (physicals, health surveys, etc) in exchange for putting "healthcare dollars" in to your fund. This helps with offsetting the deductibles. Which are HUGE by the way, my family plan is 2k a year. It's all very web focused and they strongly recommend you managing your healthcare through the web. In fact one of the incentives that nets you $50 in your fund is simply registering on the provider site.
I think it's good to try and help people be healthy but these plans can be bad. If you are normally healthy but need a normal procedure, say an appendectomy...you will pay out the nose. It's supposedly much much cheaper for corporations so you can see why they like them. I miss my HMO....
I recently made the move from engineer to security analyst. I can tell you that with HIPAA and SOX the IT security field is just starting to ramp up and will not go away until the regulations do(never). It pays more and is less stressful. I also see a big increase in the need for good business systems analysts. This too can be a very lucrative position. We are always going to need the Uber Geek on site to actually touch stuff, but I see more stability in IT jobs with more of a business flare to them. Dobo
Give you manager the Microsoft support number and have him/her try and get someone to help with that critical NT box I'm sure you still have(we all do). That should drive the point home.
Dobo
.....check out his other piece on how John the baptist was coding the secrets of A.I. in to the Bible in 95 A.D.! If he was for real he would be king of crackpottery!!
Dobo
I have two friends who make a living marking the ground in prep for a dig. There are a lot of "cuts" as they put it. Due to their error, bad prints, bad backhoe ops, or a combo of those. You'd be surprised, the percentages they talked about were pretty high....20 to 30% cut rates. And that's using cutting edge metal detectors and such.
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This is called consumer driven health care....basically they entice you into doing preventative healthcare (physicals, health surveys, etc) in exchange for putting "healthcare dollars" in to your fund. This helps with offsetting the deductibles. Which are HUGE by the way, my family plan is 2k a year. It's all very web focused and they strongly recommend you managing your healthcare through the web. In fact one of the incentives that nets you $50 in your fund is simply registering on the provider site.
I think it's good to try and help people be healthy but these plans can be bad. If you are normally healthy but need a normal procedure, say an appendectomy...you will pay out the nose.
It's supposedly much much cheaper for corporations so you can see why they like them. I miss my HMO....
Dobo
I recently made the move from engineer to security analyst. I can tell you that with HIPAA and SOX the IT security field is just starting to ramp up and will not go away until the regulations do(never). It pays more and is less stressful. I also see a big increase in the need for good business systems analysts. This too can be a very lucrative position.
We are always going to need the Uber Geek on site to actually touch stuff, but I see more stability in IT jobs with more of a business flare to them.
Dobo
Give you manager the Microsoft support number and have him/her try and get someone to help with that critical NT box I'm sure you still have(we all do). That should drive the point home.
Dobo
.....check out his other piece on how John the baptist was coding the secrets of A.I. in to the Bible in 95 A.D.! If he was for real he would be king of crackpottery!! Dobo
I have two friends who make a living marking the ground in prep for a dig. There are a lot of "cuts" as they put it. Due to their error, bad prints, bad backhoe ops, or a combo of those. You'd be surprised, the percentages they talked about were pretty high....20 to 30% cut rates. And that's using cutting edge metal detectors and such.
Dobo