Eve Luppert
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Talk therapy about mental health parity
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Eve Luppert commented on How a single-payer health care system can drive innovation into the economy on June 18, 2009, 11:25 PM
>>At the same time we want to feel like we are not paying for others bad health habits. This could be solved by creating mutual funds or bond accounts.<< But that is how all insurance works. If you are healthy now, you are supporting those that aren't healthy now....and later, when you aren't healthy, the healthy take care of you. Since most health insurance companies are taking in huge profits, the idea that your rates are insane because Joe and his family down the street always eat at MacDonalds and smoke is pretty insincere. Costs go up because of greed. And because the insurance company increase their profits by denying coverages that your doctor recommends, and then blame you and your doctor for needing the care. It's blaming the victim. There has been a movement that is somewhat like your mutual fund idea..it is called health care savings accounts. Many companies have been offering this as a way to reduce costs...and I'll say it does. You pay a premium to the insurance company, but if you need any care you take the contributions you have made (not counting premiums of course) and any your company may make on your behalf and then use that money to pay for care. They've finally figured out how to take you premiums and not pay anything out....genius. The truth is a tiny little portion of the insured use the doctors office as a time waster. This is not the problem The premise is that costs are high because you and I love going to the doctor for the heck of it, have procedures just because we can and take prescription we don't need. Clearly they are doing a good job of convincing their customers that while you need your medicine, no one else does. Further, they think that if we are consumers we will shop around for better prices. So, when your daughter breaks her arm, rather than rush to the nearest emergency room, you'll get on the phone and price shop. Or when you are prescribed something for your acid reflux, you'll price shop (which of course is a waste, since all prices are the same) or settle for Tums and milk, until your esophogas rusts, and then you'll call around for a cheap surgery. So, the insurance co's have been very successful with much of the population (and too many of our elected officials) at convincing us the problem is us...well, not us, but all those other lazy, bad habit attention seekers that are on your plan. But, look at the profits these "non-profits" make and your head will spin.
Eve Luppert has a long history of working with innovative companies to build great places to work, results driven organizations and a workforce that can survive the ups and downs of modern business.
She first began her HR career at Chiat/Day inc. Advertising. While there Chiat/Day Advertising, was repeatedly agency of the year and then the Agency of the Decade, in no small part to the firm’s ability to attract and keep the best in the business. She was part of the team that created and developed the organization system for the controversial Virtual Office, and became a leader in the New York Advertising HR community.
In Seattle she helped build two high tech firms during the boom. She was part of creating a company culture that had a far lower than average turn over rate. She also was on the board of TeenJobs.org, helping young people to find and flourish in their first professional jobs.
In 1998 Eve’s book “Rules for the Road: Surviving Your First Job out of School” was published by Putnam/Perigee. She has continued to write and speak on workplace issues since then. Most recently she spoke to the HR Signatory of the National Society of Professional Engineers on “Bridging the Generations at Work.” She wrote a weekly column on people and organizations for a website ImproveMyBusiness.com and has been published in The Seattle Business Journal and other publications.
She came to Charlotte and LandDesign as their first HR Director in 2002. The firm has been nationally recognized as one of the great places to work.
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Organizational Development Offerings
“Creating a High Performance Team” Various
"Breaking down generation barriers at work" Perkins Bickerhoff Engineering.
"Holistic Approach to Facilities Management International Facilities Managers Assoc.; and others
Understanding the New Workforce Society of Design Administrators;
International Meeting Planners Assoc.; and others
"Keeping culture alive after a layoff/merger" Seattle Chamber Of Commerce
"Creating a great place to work: Seattle Chamber Of Commerce
“The Future of the Workplace” New York Chamber of Commerce;
The Presentation Presentation Various
KeyNote Speaker Telecommute '95.
Guest lecturer, UC Berkley; Columbia University, University of Oregon, Tennessee Tech, National Association of Professional Engineers, Clemson, Purdue, Washington Works, Charlotte Art Institute, Seattle Art Institute and Seattle Central Community College and more.
Hosted The Workplace, a weekly Internet broadcast on www.talkspot.com
Certified in Team Reconstruction; process re-engineering, creating and monitoring goal setting. Developed executive training and coaching courses.
Eve Luppert commented on Talk therapy about mental health parity on October 14, 2009, 9:16 PM
PS, it's true about not being invited back.