WisBusiness: Health care insiders say cost control will remain an issue despite benefits from reform
By Patricia Simms
For WisBusiness.com
The business community should be optimistic about the effects of the unfolding Affordable Care Act on access to health care and the quality of outcomes but shouldn't expect it to control costs, industry insiders said Wednesday in Middleton.
Keeping health care costs down will have to wait until the next round of health care reform. In fact,...
WisBusiness: Top Dem knocks Walker’s pick for COO of state development agency
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, a board member of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, knocked Gov. Scott Walker's selection of Ryan Murray to be the agency's new chief operating officer.
Barca, D-Kenosha, said "less stability and more politics" is not what the agency needs and could further hurt job creation efforts, adding Murray lacks job creation experience. Murray served...
DWD: Secretary Newson urges federal officials to correct misleading data series
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Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2011 job data estimates were off actual job counts by more than 50,511
MADISON –Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Reggie Newson today urged the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to reconsider its way of estimating monthly job totals, citing estimates that inaccurately portrayed Wisconsin’s 2011...
