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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #172 The Perverse World of Employee Health Benefits & How Change Might Be Coming – with Chris Deacon, J.D., founder of VerSan Consulting & former Director NJ State Health Benefits Program
Description: There are over 160 million Americans who get their health benefits through their employers. Nearly 40% of all healthcare expenditures in the U.S. is paid for by self-insured employers. For decades, these benefits have been mismanaged – contributing to unsustainable costs and suboptimal health outcomes; and leading to a prolonged wage stagnation and suppression for working Americans and their families.
Our guest on this episode is Chris Deacon – a distinguished consultant and legal expert in employer-sponsored healthcare. Chris has dedicated her career to advocating for cost-effective strategies that benefit employers and employees. Her leadership at VerSan Consulting, LLC is marked...