THE COMPANY THAT SOLVED HEALTH CARE: HOW SERIGRAPH DRAMATICALLY REDUCED SKYROCKETING COSTS WWHILE PROVIDING BETTER CARE, AND HOW EVERY COMPANY CAN DO THE SAME
Book ID/图书代码： 12580010B39144
English Summary/英文概要： Even with new health-care policies, one thing is clear: health-care costs will continue to rise dramatically. While individuals may get better coverage, businesses will have the same problem they’ve had for the last four decades. Health care, one of corporate America’s largest expenses, is growing at double-digit rates, and nothing done in Washington will change that.
But one medium-size company set out to tame the beast of rising health-care costs, employing best practices and cutting-edge ideas. The results have caused others to sit up and take notice. Serigraph, Inc., a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of decorative parts, and its chairman, John Torinus, did what Washington can’t or won’t do: reduce cost increases to less than 2 percent while improving the quality of health care for its employees. The implications for corporate America are staggering--the opportunity for genuine reform in an expense category that has been spiraling out of control.
Serigraph began its initiative to control health-care costs in 2003, when its annual health-care bill was $5 million and another $750,000 was needed for the projected 15 percent annual increase. The company employed three strategies for reform, each of which can cut the health-care bill by 20 percent to 40 percent--consumer responsibility, the primacy of primary over specialty care and centers of value. Applied in concert with other management methods, these three approaches almost eliminated growth in health-care costs while improving the quality of employee care. The results are documented. They are beyond refute.
"The Company That Solved Health Care" describes the fascinating details of Serigraph’s program, and shows how any company can achieve similar results. This book is essential reading for any manager responsible for his or her company’s health-care expenses, any academic or thinker involved in the health-care debate and anyone who wants to better understand why health-care costs have been rising and what can be done to achieve price stability while improving patient care.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 即使美國已出臺了最新的社會醫療保障政策，但有一點卻依然顯而易見：美國內醫保的開銷數額將繼續其迅猛的竄升勢頭。雖然公眾將籍此得到更為完善的醫保服務，但對於廣大的企業商家而言，過去四十年間所令他們撓頭的問題卻始終未得到妥善解決。醫療保障，作為美國企業支出部分中最大的黑洞之一，始終在以兩位元數的速度持續增長著，而迄今為止，政府當局對此卻依然表現得束手無策。
但有這麼一家中型企業卻作到了這點，憑藉著絕佳的方案以及先進的理念，其成功遏制住了日益飆升的醫保開銷。而此舉也遂即引起了業界的一致關注。
座落於美國威斯康辛州的裝潢飾品生產企業Serigraph公司，在其主席約翰.托裏涅斯的領導下，一舉實現了多年來政府所無法達成的目標：在持續改善員工醫保品質的同時，成功將企業醫保成本增長控制在百分之二以內。此舉無疑令致廣大美國企業倍感振奮 - 因為這是一次真正的改革契機，它將幫助眾人去扭轉企業內部這一失控多時的頑疾。
Serigraph的企業醫保改革始於二零零三年，當年該公司的醫保開銷總額為五百萬美元，而按照每年15%的增長率預期，到了下一年度，這一開銷則將會增至七十五萬美元。為了實施此次醫改，該公司共引入了三套方案，而每一套方案都將幫助企業削減20%至40%的醫保開銷。於此同時，通過與其他的管理辦法相掛鈎，這三套方案在確保持續改善員工醫保品質的同時，幾乎都徹底完全遏制了開銷的增長勢頭。這一喜人的結果被如實地記錄了下來，可謂事實勝於雄辯。
「攻克醫保難關」一書描述了Serigraph改革計畫的詳細步驟，同時還向其他同業展示了應該如何複製這一成功。
對於廣大企業的醫保負責人員、身陷醫改爭論的學術界人士，或是試圖深入瞭解醫保開銷持續飆升這一現象背後的成因，以及渴望探尋如何在改善醫保品質的同時維持開銷價格局面穩定的有識之士們而言，此書無疑是眾人的必讀之作。(ANDY)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Chairman and general manager of Serigraph Inc. JohnHN TorinRINusS JrR. has studied and practiced management for more than 50 years. His company had $40 million in sales annually when he bought it in 1987; it now generates $120 million and has more than 1,000 employees in plants in the U.S., Mexico, China and India. Torinus graduated magna cum laude from Yale and was a company commander in the U.S. Marine Corps. Torinus has served as business editor and columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He lives in Milwaukee, Wis.
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