Terry Coughlin
GM's Christopher Barger: 'We're headed toward a social media version of the dotcom bubble burst' Christopher Barger knows first-hand the challenges the automotive industry has faced in recent years.
As General Motors' director of global social media, Barger is in a unique position of determining social programs while also remaining active in the communities that his company has built. As he says, "Let's face it the auto industry, and GM in particular, have given people plenty to be unhappy about in the past few years. " As the industry and GM have focused on rebuilding, however, social has become a significant part of that. Line of sight digital marketing framework.
Help. Doing the math on “shocking and unreasonable” rate increases. While I was in Washington, D.C., recently, a lawmaker told me she found it “shocking” that rate increases for insurance premiums would exceed the rate of medical inflation.
Not far away, at the Department of Health and Human Services, regulators were busy trying to define the new health care law’s “unreasonable” rate increase standard. HHS has suggested that any increase that exceeds medical inflation might be “unreasonable.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported that, through November, the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index for medical care is 3.4 percent.