Big Opportunities from Big Businesses

 read an article written by Sara Eisen for Medill Reports Chicago that described an annual conference for the Midwest Business Group on Health. These business leaders, consisting of more than 200 individuals from a diverse group of public and private companies, are gathering this year to discuss the advantages to expanding company health care benefits. They are trying to persuade other companies that there are many good reasons to give employees more health benefits. Some of these reasons include less productivity loss due to employee illness, lessened existing health conditions, and increased health awareness overall. If successful, these changes in health care benefits packages would lead to steady work for MTs as more employees were receiving health screenings and additional services to maintain their health