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Ruminations on how public policy can impact people and business.
Case Study: Shaving Costs Without Shaving Healthcare Coverage: A Collaborative Success Story
In the complex landscape of employee benefits and healthcare coverage, The Arc Mercer, a non-profit organization, has found an innovative solution...
Overcoming Employee Financial Insecurity: A Mandate for Corporate Leaders
In today's dynamic business environment, ensuring the welfare of your workforce needs to extend beyond conventional healthcare benefits. Financial...
Let Competitors Raise Their Prices. Fight Inflation With Medicaid.
Unless you’ve been in business for more than 40 years, you’ve never faced inflation like this. Prices have risen 8.3% for the year through...
How Employers Can Advocate for Medicaid Expansion
When you discover a good thing, you want to share it. That impulse is natural, but the best way to do it might not be. You know Medicaid expansion...
Constructive Solutions to Worker Absenteeism
Absenteeism is a frustrating problem. But the solution isn’t to lash out; it’s to lean in. While it may sometimes be necessary to impose penalties...
The ACA Turns 12: A Look Back and Ahead on the Landmark Law
It’s easy to take for granted a law passed in March 2010. But on the Affordable Care Act — the greatest overhaul to the nation’s health system, and...
Don’t Wait for WARN: Manage Risks Proactively With Medicaid
Medicaid is a cost-saving measure. But we think it deserves credit as something more: a risk management tool. We’ve been talking recently about...
5 States That Could Expand Medicaid in 2022
Although Medicaid expansion is now eight years old, a dozen states still haven’t adopted it. How likely are the holdouts to change course in 2022?...
Why Medicaid Beats Private Health Plans in Member Satisfaction
It doesn’t take an Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to see why transitioning eligible workers from the group plan to Medicaid makes business sense. But you...