Securitizing Insurance Risk: Strategic Opportunities for Insureres and Investors
by Michael Himick (Editor)
The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States
by Marie Gottschalk
"Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance?
Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that the unions'
surprising stance was a consequence of the peculiarly private nature of social policy in the United States. Her book combines a much-needed account of labor's important role in determining health care policy with a bold and incisive analysis of the American welfare state.
"Gottschalk stresses that, in the United States, the social welfare system is anchored in the private sector but backed by government policy. As a result, the private sector is a key political battlefield where business, labor, the state, and employees hotly contest matters such as health care. She maintains that the shadow welfare state of job-based benefits shaped the manner in which labor defined its policy interests and strategies. As evidence, Gottschalk examines the influence of the Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (E.R.I.S.A.), and experience-rated health insurance, showing how they constrained labor from supporting universal health care.
"Labor, Gottschalk asserts, missed an important opportunity to develop a broader progressive agenda. She challenges the movement to establish a position on health care that addresses the growing ranks of Americans without insurance, the restructuring of the U.S. economy, and the political travails of the unions themselves."
Slash Your Workers' Comp Costs: How to Cut Premiums Up to 35%-And Maintain a Productive and Safe Workplace
by Thomas Lundberg, Lynn Tylczak (Contributor)
From Ingram
"Now businesspeople can discover how to cut their workers' compensation premiums by up to 35%--while still maintaining the protection they need. Complete yet easy-to-read, filled with succinct, bulleted information and handy checklists, this guide explains how to reduce the exorbitant costs."
Smarter Insurance Solutions (Bloomberg Personal Library)
by Janet Bamford, Ward Schumaker (Illustrator)
"The average household spends 16% of its budget on insurance, yet consumers know very little about their coverage. Bamford's book talks insurance simply and intelligently, stripping away the mysteries surrounding those often invisible investment, and teaches consumers the skills they need to act as managers of their own insurance portfolios."
Start Your Own Medical Claims and Transcription Business (Start Your Own Business)
"Lessons from successful entrpreneurs who have capitalized on the phenomenal growth of the medical services area with these two complementary high-demand businesses."
Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: With Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology, and Other Fields
by Michael Thomas, Rolf-Dieter Reiss
"Provides broad statistical background as well as instruction in the statistical analysis of extreme values. Includes special chapters about flood frequency analysis, insurance, and finance. The CD-ROM offers a 32-bit statistical software called Xtremes..."
Superstars of Insurance Sales (Handbooks)
by Judith Habert
"This book offers a lifetime of real-world experience in the field of insurance sales. It will serve as an invaluable source for anyone who wants to succeed in this field. Forty of the most successful agents pass their experience on to you."
