Dominion Benefits Solutions

Monday Q&A: You call this a free market?

President Obama signed a new health-care reform bill that will expand access to health care just as businesses try to reduce their role in providing benefits. This week RBS talks with two principals from Dominion Benefit Solutions, a locally-based firm that helps businesses select insurance plans, about what small businesses see in their future and why health care is not really a free market. Click to read a lively and frank discussion.

Latest hospital financials look healthy

Treating sick patients is a healthy business, or at least it was in 2008, the most recent year for which audited hospital financials are available. BizSense has the profits and margins at area hospitals, plus a brief salary list of some of the higher paid employees at Bon Secours.