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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #111: Reclaiming the American Dream through Reframing Employer-based Healthcare, with Dave Chase
Description: Friends,
Our topic this episode may be one of the most misunderstood and challenging issues in healthcare delivery – with significant potential for lowering costs and improving outcomes. The topic is employer-based healthcare; and as many of you know, employers pay for 50% of all the healthcare costs in the US.
Escalating healthcare costs over the past few decades have imposed a major strain on corporate America and its employees. The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that in 2018, employers paid approximately $20,000 per year for healthcare for a family of four, $6000 of which the employee paid. They also reported th...