The champions of the “free market” are frantically lobbying to block the Federal Trade Commission’s imminent ban on noncompete agreements, which prevent workers from seeking better-paying jobs or starting new businesses.
The US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobby in the country, touts itself as the voice for “competition in the marketplace,” a principle it says is vital for innovation and dynamism in the economy. Despite its rhetoric, the Chamber is mobilizing against a major reform proposed by the FTC to liberate workers from so-called noncompete clauses. Noncompetites have become rampant at large companies, which force many workers to sign them as a condition of employment. Today, about 1 in 5 American workers — some 30 million people — are bound by a noncompete.
“This is just another example where support for the ‘free market’ is effectively Calvinball for pro-business groups,” economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research told The Intercept. “They are perfectly happy to effectively redefine the free market when it suits their interests.”
Indeed, this phenomenon — of corporations loudly agitating for the “principles” of the “free market” but opposing functioning markets in practice — was recently pointed out by an anonymous commenter on the FTC’s website. The poster, writing in support of the proposed FTC rule, said, “I find it ironic that many who support non-compete clauses also claim to support the free market/capitalism, which supposedly thrives off of competition.”
This should be no surprise, however. In Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations,” published in 1776, he points out that “to widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest” of the biggest “merchants and master manufacturers.” Therefore, the public should listen to the arguments of such interests “with the most suspicious attention” since they “generally have an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public.”
Pro-business groups argue that the FTC does not have the legal authority to issue such a ban. “Attempting to ban noncompete clauses in all employment circumstances overturns well-established state laws which have long governed their use and ignores the fact that, when properly used, noncompete agreements are an important tool in fostering innovation and preserving competition,” the US Chamber of Commerce Senior Vice President for International Regulatory Affairs and Antitrust Sean Heather said in the statement. (The latter argument ignores the variety of other laws that exist protecting businesses’ proprietary information.)
On Tuesday, the Chamber and a coalition representing hundreds of employers sent a letter to the FTC, requesting an extension in the comment period to provide industry groups with more time to mount opposition. The FTC announced the rule on January 5. After a 90-day public comment period, the FTC may decide to amend the rule or withdraw it. If the agency moves forward with the non-compete ban, the rule takes effect 180 days after the publication of the final regulation.
The Chamber-led industry coalition includes the American Hospital Association, the American Bankers Association, National Restaurant Association, and dozens of other employer-led groups that represent the very largest corporations in America.
The Chamber has threatened a lawsuit to block the FTC rule. “There is no need to panic,” Jackson Lewis, one of the most aggressively anti-union law firms in the country which advises businesses, wrote in a special report on January 10: “It is still early in the process […] if the final rule is issued, there will be significant and substantial legal challenges to it.”
The proliferation of so-called noncompete clauses have flooded into the economy – a phenomenon that has become common even for fast-food workers, clerks, and low-level hospital employees. In 2016, a report from the Treasury Department found that 15 percent of workers without a four-year college degree are subject to noncompete agreements, despite some of such workers possessing trade secrets. The clause generally restricts workers from taking similar employment elsewhere or starting a new business in the future.
“It is outrageous that these companies want the right not to have to compete with each other in an open market for employees.”
These restrictions have caused alarm among economists and worker advocates. The Economic Policy Institute has found that noncompete clauses have fueled rising inequality by reducing “labor market fluidity” — that is, the ability for workers to change jobs. One of the primary ways a nonunion worker can bargain for a better wage is to threaten to leave for a better paid position elsewhere, a dynamic that is eliminated by noncompete clauses.
“It is outrageous that these companies want the right not to have to compete with each other in an open market for employees,” JW Mason, an economist at the City University of New York, told The Intercept. “On a competitive market they don’t want to pay what people’s labor would actually be worth.”
The FTC’s proposal followed a July executive order by President Joe Biden instructing the agency “to exercise the FTC’s statutory rulemaking authority under the Federal Trade Commission Act to curtail the unfair use of non-compete clauses and other clauses or agreements that may unfairly limit worker mobility .”
FTC Chair Lina Khan’s appointment was heralded by progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as “tremendous news” and a “huge opportunity to make big, structural change by reviving antitrust enforcement and fighting monopolies.” Selected to shake up an agency long considered by progressives to be too soft on business, Khan has challenged decades of antitrust law by arguing that there’s a monopoly case against Amazon.
And the rule is popular, enjoying support from two-thirds of people currently employed, according to a January 6 poll by Ipsos. Legislators from both parties have introduced bills that also sharply restrict the use of such clauses.
“Speak up and file a comment if you have something to say,” Fisher Phillips instructs clients in a frequently asked questions page. “Coordinate with your Fisher Phillips attorney if you would like guidance on this process.” Fisher Philipps has in the past conducted trainings with the Chamber of Commerce instructing employers on noncompetites.
A recurring theme in the public comments is medical professionals expressing frustration with non-competes leaving them unable to hire. “Noncompete clauses force doctors to move out of the state if they [are] wanting to switch jobs and causing them not to pursue jobs in the first place,” wrote Dr. Shiraz Rahim, a physician at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, whose responsibilities include hiring other doctors. “This has contributed to a shortage of doctors across our system and made it impossible to recruit new doctors to our area.”
“I previously worked in an underserved area of Ohio where patients had to wait over 6 months to see a medical specialist. My hospital job required a non compete of 20 miles,” wrote Florida physician Katherine Lu. “These non complete force physicians to leave the community and their patients if they want to leave their job. I personally had to move with my family to another state to work again after leaving.”
In another public comment, Dr. Cordelia Ariel Nason, director of anesthesiology at Northridge Surgical Suites in Nashua, New Hampshire, described the dire consequences of noncompetes, which she says “tips the balance in favor of large companies” that own hospitals and other medical facilities.
“These large corporations then hire doctors, coerce them to sign non-compete contracts which effectively limits working at the very facilities where they dedicate their lives to,” Nason wrote. “And then if working conditions under the company are poor or the company terminates their own contract with the medical facility or the medical facility terminates the contract with the company, the doctor is then unable to work at that facility for himself or another company that may have more favorable conditions.”
To the extent that arguments against noncompetites bother to go beyond the procedural questions about the FTC’s authority, they tend to focus on the idea that noncompetes promote innovation by preventing employees from leaving a job and taking trade secrets with them. Indeed, employers frequently argue that noncompete clauses are necessary to protect confidential information, such as marketing strategies or pricing plans. The fear of losing the competitive edge from inside information has fueled the proliferation of such employment contracts.
But advocates note that the FTC ban on noncompete clauses, like similar bans enacted in recent years in Maryland and California, do not circumvent existing laws banning the theft of trade secrets and other proprietary information. Employers may still require confidentiality agreements and other restrictive covenants in employment contracts, while allowing former employees to leave and work at competing firms.
“Many states, most notably California, have long banned non-competitions; they seem to be doing fine,” said Baker, the economist. “The claims on innovation are pretty obvious nonsense, given California’s dominance of tech.”
Another argument advanced by advocates is that noncompetes incentivize employers to invest in training employees, since there isn’t risk of them leaving for a competitor. “There might be some impact on training, but the benefits in the form of higher wages and more frequent startups almost certainly offset this,” Baker said.
Lobbying records show corporate interests are preparing to fight. The HR Policy Association, which represents major employers including McDonald’s Corporation and Johnson & Johnson, has closely tracked the reform efforts around noncompete clauses.
The National Association of Manufacturers, which represents Toyota, Exxon Mobil, BNSF, and other large employers, reported lobbying the FTC and other federal agencies over noncompete issues.
Opposition even extends to the media. The National Newspaper Association, which represents community newspapers across America, signed onto the Chamber letter sent earlier this week. News outlets, like virtually every other industry, have increasingly adopted noncompete clauses in employment contracts, not only for top editors and executives, but also for low-level journalists and other employees.
Throughout the history of capitalism, the goal of employers — whatever their rhetoric — has always been to reduce competition in various ways in order to drive down wages. In the 1800s, as the British Empire prepared to eliminate slavery in its possessions, British officials laid plans to prevent their former slaves from having the option of buying their own land to farm — and therefore be in a position to demand better pay. This was, in a sense, the noncompete clause of the day.
More recently, in Silicon Valley, Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel privately agreed not to poach workers from each other with offers of higher salaries. As the New York Times put it in 2015, they “conspired against their own employees.” The four companies eventually settled a lawsuit for $415 million. Other companies were also involved in the collusion, including eBay. (eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar, who also founded First Look Media, whose nonprofit arm The Intercept was originally part of.)
At least one lobbying group let slip that there’s another way to retain employees. The American Optometric Association, which represents optometrists, sent an update for members around the FTC proposal. The memo quotes Sharon Markowitz, an attorney, who recommended that doctors consider talking to a lawyer and submitting a FTC comment in opposition to the rule.
If all else fails, Markowitz said, one way to get ahead of the possible elimination of noncompete clauses is to improve employee loyalty by “increasing wages.”
HEDIS is a set of performance measures that are used to compare health plan performance and measure the quality of health plans. These measures were created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). About 90% of health plans use HEDIS as a standard to measure the performance of their plan. The data is tracked from year to year to measure the performance of the health plan and thus provide information regarding the population served.
The data that is collected is used to monitor the health of the general population, evaluate treatment outcomes, etc., and the data is collected through administrative, hybrid, and survey methods.
HEDIS Measure Domains:
About 95 HEDIS measures are categorized under the following six “domains of care”.
Effectiveness of Care
Controlling High Blood Pressure
Care for Older Adults
Hemoglobin A1c Control for Patients With Diabetes
Blood Pressure Control for Patients With Diabetes
Eye Exam for Patients With Diabetes
Breast Cancer Screening
Colorectal Cancer Screening
Access/Availability of Care
Adults’ Access to Preventive/Ambulatory Health Services
Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization.
Experience of Care (CAHPS)
CAHPS Health Plan Survey 5.1H, Adult Version
Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization
Utilization and Risk-adjusted Utilization
Well-Child Visits in the First 30 Months of Life
Child and Adolescent Well-Care Visits
Health Plan Descriptive Information
Language Diversity of Membership
Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization
Measures Collected Using Electronic Clinical Data Systems
Childhood Immunization Status
Breast Cancer Screening
Depression Screening and Follow-Up for Adolescents and Adults
How is data collected for HEDIS?
Health plans collect and report performance data about specific services and types of care to NCQA. NCQA health insurance rates based on 90-plus measures.
HEDIS data is collected through three methods:
Administrative data: Data collected from office visits, hospitalizations, and pharmacy data
Hybrid data: It’s a combination of administrative data from claims as well as from patient’s medical records
Data surveys: This is data collected through survey questionnaires from members.
Why do HEDIS scores matter?
HEDIS scores are critical for health care planning. HEDIS scores help payers understand the quality of care their members receive for chronic and acute conditions. The better the score, the more effectively the payer competes with other payers in the market.
Benefits of HEDIS measures:
It helps health plans assess the quality and variance of health care provided to enrollees.
It determines how the plan is best for chronic disease management and preventive care.
The use of preventive screening measures helps to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs
Quality interventions are based on closing gaps in care and expanding preventive services such as vaccinations, pap smears, mammograms, and treatment for hypertension or cholesterol.
Star ratings enable providers to measure the success of their improvement initiatives
Effects of HEDIS on Reimbursement:
CMS has directly tied reimbursement of medical costs to patient outcomes. As a result, health insurance providers face the challenge of bridging coverage gaps and improving quality. By focusing on quality results, members can maximize their benefits and ultimately make better use of limited resources.
HEDIS is recognized as the highest standard of reimbursement by health care providers and payers. Health care plans take HEDIS tests and quality measures seriously because they know that money is at stake. Leaders need to be more aware of the importance of organizations continuing to engage in all quality improvement activities.
Ultimately, CMS penalizes health plans if they underperform for more than three years. HEDIS as a whole is changing the company’s understanding of the importance of measuring quality, a fundamental concept underlying performance-related quality initiatives.
Effects of HEDIS on gaps in care
HEDIS measures can help identify gaps in care for participants who have not been screened for breast cancer or who have not been vaccinated against HPV. This can affect your quality score. Improving Star and HEDIS performance requires closing the gap. These gaps can be filled by reaching these participants through home testing kits, home health care, and screening visits.
Why is HEDIS important to providers?
Ensure timely and appropriate care for their patients.
Help identify and address gaps in patient care.
As HEDIS rates rise, providers are able to capture maximum or additional revenue through a pay-for-quality, value-based service, and pay-for-performance model.
Why is HEDIS important to payers?
HEDIS scores help health plans understand the quality of care provided to people with chronic and acute conditions.
Helps identify gaps in health network performance and care delivery
Helps improve patient outcomes and reduce care costs through preventive services
HEDIS identifies public health impacts such as heart diseases, cancer, smoking, and asthma which provides useful data on health issues.
Care is provided to help identify and treat at-risk groups who have not completed immunizations, dental care, screenings, etc.
NCQA Health Plan Rating vs Medicare Star Ratings:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses a five-star rating system to rate how well Medicare Advantage (MA) health plans (Parts C and D) and providers serve their members. Assessment results are based on the implementation of the plan, the quality of care provided, and customer service. Ratings range from 1 to 5 stars. 5 is the highest score for excellent performance, and 1 is the lowest score for poor performance.
Both the NCQA Health Plan Rating (HPR) and the Medicare Star Rating are used to assess health insurance quality and performance, and both rate and report plan performance. The goal of HPR and star ratings is to provide the plan with a metric to assess its current operational status. This allows us to ensure the quality of our plans so that consumers can choose a quality health plan that meets their needs.
HEDIS and Star ratings are important because they represent the effectiveness of patient care provided by healthcare organizations, and HEDIS and Star ratings decrease when there are gaps in care. Another reason HEDIS and Stars need to maintain high ratings is for reimbursement purposes. Healthcare organizations with a lower rating are not eligible for bonus payments and are subject to fines.
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Nonprofits have an outsized impact on society. They feed the hungry, house the homeless and inspire the next generation to do good in the world. Whatever their mission, the most successful nonprofits often have one thing in common: They plan.
Veteran nonprofit executives know that goals are most reliably met, and the greatest impact is achieved, with careful planning. Without a roadmap, even the most influential organizations can struggle.
Those in the industry also know there’s more than one type of plan. Perhaps the best known is the strategic plan, that big-picture, goal-setting blueprint that charts the general direction a nonprofit should head in. Strategic plans are instrumental, but they’re not the only type of plan a nonprofit needs to be successful.
Indeed, an equally important but often overlooked plan is the business plan. Business plans are much more targeted and granular: While a strategic plan is about transformation over several years, a business plan is about financial sustainability over a shorter period, like the decision to open or close a program.
Strategic plans and business plans complement each other — the business plan is the more tactical of the two, which makes the strategy come to life. While strategic plans tend to focus on the impact an organization intends to have, business plans focus on the financial considerations that make that impact possible. Below, find five tips for crafting your nonprofit’s business plan.
Business plans should always have a few key components. While business plans can vary depending on your organization’s scope and goals, there are several components that all business plans should include. First is a feasibility study: a careful look at how any proposed changes would actually happen on the ground. Second is revenue and cost projections: things like staffing numbers, service fees, and other expenses. And third, they should include a value proposition: an explanation of how the plan dovetails with the broader strategic plan.
Business plans are updated more regularly. While strategic plans are created and updated relatively infrequently (many span around five years), business plans need more regular attention. A typical business plan lasts just a few years. If you create one that runs any longer, it risks becoming unrealistic — business goals, resources, services, and needs can change significantly over three or more years.
Business plans should be multifaceted.The best business plans consider the organization as a whole, rather than focusing on a single program or physical asset. It’s critical to include the executive team and finance team in the process, two groups who hold significant knowledge of the initiatives across the organization. It’s also important to incorporate program-specific and department-specific leadership teams, like directors and senior managers. These individuals can help make the plan more concrete. And, looping them in also gives them a sense of ownership and accountability.
Business plans aren’t static. Business plans should be living documents — don’t think of them as etched in stone. There should be regular evaluation intervals, where you check progress against revue and other benchmarks. If you learn that you overlooked a key detail, or that the environment you work in has changed, you can and should update and refine the plan.
Business plans should be realistic. One common mistake that nonprofits make when crafting business plans is being overly optimistic. It’s important to remain clear-eyed about what kind of revenue you can actually achieve, and in what amount of time — as well as what your costs will actually be. Don’t simply look at direct costs — also look at overhead and the indirect expenses of building a new program. It’s also vital for departments to communicate when developing a business plan, and don’t make assumptions that one department will cover certain costs.
As your nonprofit navigates 2023, consider creating a sound business plan that will set your organization up for financial sustainability. No matter your organization’s size or goals, financial health is always paramount. After all, nonprofits have many of the same financial considerations as businesses. By using the above tips, your organization can develop a business plan that will ensure your financial sustainability is well planned for.
A business plan is a foundational key to success for any business, whether big or small. Whether your goal is to secure funding for your business, develop a general roadmap, or simply grow your business from the ground up, an effective plan must be established prior to any first step.
What is a Business Plan?
For those unfamiliar with the term, a business plan is a key document that defines, in detail, the objectives of a company and how that company specifically plans to achieve those goals. This plan will cover everything including finances, marketing, operational considerations, legal considerations, and much more.
Business plans are developed with both the internal and external audiences in mind. From an external perspective, a business plan helps a company identify their potential customer base and where they should be directing the vast majority of their energy. Internally, a business plan can be used to pitch investors for funding or simply to show shareholders and employees the direction of the business.
Why is a Business Plan Important?
Some companies may overlook creating a business plan out of eagerness to get their operations underway. In this process, they may accidentally gloss over extremely important details that need to be covered. As an example, if a business plans on making an employee base they will need to set up workers compensation insurance in the event of a workplace accident. Not doing so can leave them open to being sued by a former employee who was injured on the job.
Alternatively, if a company whose product is primarily food-based, specifically meats, starts advertising to platforms that are predominantly vegetarian, they aren’t likely to be successful. Implementing a strong and effective business plan is an important starting point for any business.
6 Steps to Create an Effective Business Plan
With the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ covered above, the only thing left to do is learn how to create a business plan that sets you apart from the competition:
Choose a business plan type
The first step in creating a business plan is to choose which type of plan you want to create: traditional or lean startup. There are a few key differences between the two.
A traditional business plan is typically extremely detailed, takes a long amount of time to write, and is more comprehensive. It is the preferred plan for targeting lenders or investors in the business. On the other hand, a lean startup plan is more high-level, quick notes about the organization that aren’t targeted towards potential investors.
A startup plan is only going to include the most crucial elements to your business strategy, essentially providing readers with a basic understanding of your business using only a quick glance.
Describe your company
The foundation of any business plan is describing what it is that your business does. This section should include information such as the registered name for your business, its location, who the management team is, and what the business structure looks like.
Cover the history of your organization and any driving factors that led to its creation to allow readers to better understand company objectives. It’s also best to include a percentage of ownership in the company so that investors can understand the financial structure.
Write an executive summary
An executive summary, often the first page of a plan, is the quickest glance into your business that a reader will have. It is also one of the most difficult things to write in the plan as a result. You must condense the entire summation of your business’ description, goals, and strategy into a small paragraph or visual page that investors can understand.
In general, avoid going into detail on an executive summary. Instead, focus on providing only the most important points of your organization, such as an overarching strategy to sell specific products, rather than diving into specifics.
Outline your business goals
During the course of creating your business plan, you will want to create an objective statement. This type of statement lists what your company wants to accomplish and how they are actually going to accomplish it. Typically, an objective statement will be broken out into the short vs. long-term, allowing readers to gain a better sense of the business roadmap.
Any plans for acquiring funding should be listed here, along with future goals such as introducing new products or different marketing strategies. As a whole, the objective of this section is to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of what your company is doing and how you plan to grow your company over time.
Describe your products and services
No business plan would be complete without a description of the products or services offered. Besides providing insight to investors on what they are putting money into, this description can help business owners narrow down who their target audience actually is, resulting in improved sales from targeted marketing.
You should include a description of the product or service, pricing models for those items, who your customers are intended to be, how you will order those items, how you will sell the items, and how you will get the items to customers.
Perform financial analysis on your business
Finally, perhaps one of the most important aspects of a business model is financial analysis. Investors need to see hard numbers to understand what they’re getting into, and financial analysis will also help you decide if the business is viable. Calculate metrics such as net income target, profit ratio, leverage, inventory turnover target, and sales target.
Start your small business today
Starting a small business is never an easy task, but it is extremely exciting, nonetheless. Avoid getting caught up in that excitement and forgetting to handle some key administrative steps, such as creating a business plan, when implementing your idea. With the right tools at your disposal, any business idea can be crafted into something special over time.
‘University should have worked with the city to have better planned for the large influx of students to the community this year,’ said student
GuelphToday received the following letter to the editor from university student Helene Carle regarding a recent article outlining the current student housing crisis.
As a third year student, my sympathies are with those trying to find housing in Guelph for this coming school year. The university, and by relation, the city, have failed to place those placed in Guelph for their studies.
It is clear that the University of Guelph is becoming more and more popular, which brings great attraction to the City of Guelph itself and its businesses. However, it is even more obvious that the housing crisis has not been taken care of, with some students paying more than $1,000 a month for a room. Supply is short, and with demand being this high, prices are bound to skyrocket.
High prices and unaffordable living is not a great business plan for the city. It is in my opinion that the university should have worked with the city to have better planned for the large influx of students into the community this year. Many are going to be left in financial hardship. Small businesses are going to suffer, while big box stores are going to thrive with additional students in the area.
In my eyes, Guelph is looking much more like big city living, and not in a good way.
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