(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Health care
- Medical care benefits, March 2011 (01/24/2012)
- Workers in abolished occupations (11/03/2011)
- Outpatient prescription drug coverage, March 2010 (09/26/2011)
- Medical plan benefits for physical therapy, kidney dialysis, and other benefits in 2009 (07/29/2011)
- Maternity care benefits among medical plan participants, 2009 (06/30/2011)
- Labor costs in the auto industry (04/27/2011)
- State and local government employee benefits, March 2010 (03/09/2011)
- Top searches on the BLS website (01/21/2011)
- Health insurance costs to employers and employees, 1999 to 2009 (11/01/2010)
- Access to employer-provided benefits among full- and part-time private industry workers, March 2010 (08/06/2010)
- Supplemental pay in the healthcare industry, 2007–10 (07/29/2010)
- Health insurance benefit costs in private industry, March 2010 (06/14/2010)
- Hourly earnings of healthcare practitioner and technical occupations, by work level, 2008 (05/03/2010)
- Consumer out-of-pocket health care expenditures in 2008 (03/25/2010)
- Earnings of healthcare workers in hospitals, 2008 (03/15/2010)
- Take-up rates for medical care plans among State and local government and private industry workers, March 2009 (01/08/2010)
- Illnesses and injuries among State and local government workers in 2008 (11/04/2009)
- Declines in occupational illnesses and injuries in 2008 (11/03/2009)
- Stand-alone dental and vision plans: employee access and participation by establishment size (11/02/2009)
- Demographics of New York City health care employment (10/07/2009)
- Employee access to medical care benefits in metropolitan areas, December 2008 (09/29/2009)
- Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/2009)
- Wages in healthcare practitioner and technical occupations (02/05/2009)
- Changes in health care spending patterns of older Americans (01/05/2009)
- Not-for-profit sector and employment (12/31/2008)
- Employer shares of medical plan premiums, March 2008 (11/05/2008)
- Workplace injury and illness rates by industry in 2007 (10/27/2008)
- Variation in medical care benefits by occupation, 2008 (09/25/2008)
- Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/2008)
- Retirement and medical care benefits in 2008 (08/08/2008)
- Surgical technologists (07/23/2008)
- Contributing towards medical care coverage (01/09/2008)
- Medical care benefits for lower and higher wage workers (01/03/2008)
- Health care plans in 2007 (08/23/2007)
- Medical care inflation in 2006 (08/03/2007)
- Health benefit costs by region (07/06/2007)
- Health benefit costs and establishment size, March 2007 (06/22/2007)
- Health savings accounts (04/05/2007)
- Flexible benefits and reimbursement accounts (04/04/2007)
- Healthcare employment for workers without a bachelor's degree (09/26/2006)
- Medical care inflation in 2005 (06/20/2006)
- Health care plans and establishment size in 2005 (01/30/2006)
- Treating cancer with technology (09/15/2005)
- Healthcare spending in 2003 (07/08/2005)
- Wages in for-profit and nonprofit private hospitals (07/01/2005)
- Cost of health benefits: $1.64 per hour in March 2005 (06/17/2005)
- Insurance coverage for mental healthcare (05/05/2005)
- Increases in prescription-drug copayments, 1993–2000 (10/04/2004)
- The recent decline in medical and retirement plan coverage (09/28/2004)
- Cost-saving incentives in prescription-drug coverage (09/21/2004)
- Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2003 (05/24/2004)
- Medical care inflation slowed last year (05/20/2004)
- Employee contributions for medical insurance premiums (04/28/2004)
- Largest rise in consumer spending in 2002: health care (11/25/2003)
- Health care plans in 2003 (09/30/2003)
- Employee contributions for medical insurance in 2003 (09/25/2003)
- Retirement expenditures for Whites, Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin (08/07/2003)
- Out-of-pocket medical spending: fee-for-service vs. HMO coverage (07/09/2003)
- Accuracy of growth projections for health care occupations (05/28/2003)
- Another rise in medical care inflation (04/16/2003)
- Health services had biggest employment gain in 2002 (03/27/2003)
- ECI and Medicare payments (01/06/2003)
- Preventive care provisions not commonly described in plans (12/31/2002)
- Consumer health care spending in 2001 (12/10/2002)
- Cost of health benefits in private industry, March 2002 (07/15/2002)
- Continued acceleration in medical care inflation (05/23/2002)
- Decline in traditional fee-for-service health plans in 1990s (03/19/2002)
- Some service industries grow faster in recessions (11/30/2001)
- Slower rise in out-of-pocket health care spending in 1999 (07/06/2001)
- Health benefits 5.6 percent of total compensation (07/05/2001)
- Fitness, wellness benefits moderately prevalent for State, local government workers (02/21/2001)
- Managed care more common among State and local government employees (02/07/2001)
- Producer prices for health care services in 1999 (10/17/2000)
- Part-timers earn more in some health care jobs (08/29/2000)
- Retirees spending more on health insurance (07/13/2000)
- Health care 5½ percent of compensation (07/12/2000)
- Medical care inflation up in 1999 (06/26/2000)
- Trends in health insurance (05/16/2000)
- Annual wages of nurses, doctors, and other health care workers (12/23/1999)
- Health insurance now accounts for biggest share of health care dollar (08/23/1999)
- Hospitals have highest number of occupational injuries (08/18/1999)
- Educational and health services employment most extensive in Northeast (08/16/1999)
- Consumer prices for medical care accelerate in 1998 (06/07/1999)
- In small firms, blue-collar, service workers least covered by health care benefits (05/26/1999)
- Slower growth in health services earnings in the 90s (05/17/1999)
- Health employment not as strong as it used to be (05/06/1999)
- Employer costs for Medicare, workers' compensation rise from 1966-98 (04/28/1999)
- Health care costs fluctuate with employer cost-containment efforts (04/08/1999)
- Medical care spending climbs again in 1997 (03/16/1999)
- More workers covered by HMOs and PPOs (01/08/1999)
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: The Recession of 2007–2009
The most recent recession in the United States began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, though many of the statistics that describe the U.S. economy have yet to return to their pre-recession values. In this Spotlight, we present BLS data that compare the recent recession to previous recessions.
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