Keep It Simple: Too Many Players, Not Enough Caring

Keep It Simple: Too Many Players, Not Enough Caring

When one thinks about the healthcare industrial complex and the amount of money being generated by for-profit organizations administering the provision of care, the result can be mind boggling. Without even including the professionals who place their hands on the...
What Employers Want From Health Systems

What Employers Want From Health Systems

In 2008, America’s financial institutions were deemed Too Big To Fail. In 2023, does healthcare have the opposite problem: Too Big To Succeed? Can a delivery system dominated by a small group of for-profit players deliver reform and customer value? Many...
Obesity is the New Tobacco

Obesity is the New Tobacco

My father lied about his age and hitched a ride on the USS Ranger to fight Rommel in North Africa.  As part of his daily ration, the US Navy gave this 17-year-old young man two packs of Marlboro cigarettes.  40 times a day, he pulled the smoke into his lungs which was...
2021: The Year of the Wellbeing Program

2021: The Year of the Wellbeing Program

Employers have a sense of urgency around deploying or revamping employee wellbeing programs, in large part because of the pandemic. According to a recent survey of HR professionals across several industries, sixty-four percent of employers said that the pandemic has...
ERISA 101

ERISA 101

The Employee Retirement and Income Security Act, commonly referred to as ERISA, is a federal law enacted in 1974 to protect individuals participating in employer-sponsored retirement plans and health insurance plans. The law also protects an employee’s beneficiaries...