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...
Building a Strategy From the Demand Side

Building a Strategy From the Demand Side

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Employer Sponsored Health Benefit Plans, employers are the principle source of health insurance in the United States, providing benefits to over 153 million non-elderly people in America. Sixty-one percent of covered...
Retailers Continue Push Into Primary Care

Retailers Continue Push Into Primary Care

A previous blog post discussed how insurers were venturing into the primary care space by opening their own clinics, most notably the partnership between CVS Health and Aetna to operate MinuteClinics. Now retailers are the latest to jump into the market with Wal-Mart...