The positive economic and humanistic results of this study provide supporting evidence for implementation of employer-sponsored, pharmacist-led MTM programs.
Whether a worker received a wage increase, however, was primarily dependent on leadership within the health care organization, including having an employer leader and employer implementation policies.
The health care reform bill passed by Congress made implementation of the employer mandate unnecessarily complicated, for both employers and the administration, as former Obama health policy aide Ezekiel Emmanuel pointed out in a recent New York Times column.
But right now, there's little prospect that all of the pieces will come together in such little time for the proper and prudent implementation of the employer notification and subsequent personal mandate.
On July 2, 2013, the Obama Administration announced on the Treasury Department's Proposed Regulations REG-138006-12 wouldelayay the implementation of the employer mandate for one year, until 2015.
The survey, which was conducted from June 21 to July 8, probably does not reflect how small business sentiment may have changed since the Obama administration delayed implementation of the employer mandate by one year.
Consider the fact that the Obama administration recently made a teensy-tiny little sliver of executive-branch insistence -- postponing the implementation of the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act -- and it has been a rain of holy hellfire hand-baskets ever since.
Employer implementation of a standardized system of water break reminders at reasonable intervals, location of bathroom facilities closer to workers, and use of salaried or hourly instead of piece rate payment schemes may help address these barriers.
Ben Black, director of My Family Care, which provides family-friendly solutions to large companies, said it had had "hundreds of thinktanks and loads of employers" discussing implementation problems, in particular the impact of employees taking "a month here or there".
While industry literature considers cost-containment for prescription drug costs to be a priority for insurers and employers, the implementation of cost-containment measures for private drug plans in Canada remains more of a myth than a reality.
