Background: Chronic diseases and their treatments may cause symptoms that impair performance but are too mild to affect outcome measures such as absences and workforce exit. Objective: To assess the effect of type 2 diabetes mellitus on individuals Methods: Subjects were identified from claims...

The Reagan administration has again proposed in 1984 to limit the tax exemption on health-insurance premiums. Objectives of the proposal are to curtail rising health costs by reducing insurance coverage-and hence medical-care use-and to raise revenues to offset the large federal deficit. The...