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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #218 Who is Looking Out for Us?: The Plight of the Employer in American Healthcare Game with Shawn Gremminger, President and CEO. National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Description: What if employers just stopped offering healthcare benefits to their employees? Could that happen? If the astronomical cost of healthcare keeps expanding, some employers will have no choice.
That’s where our guest this week comes in. Shawn Gremminger is the President and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. His organization works with regional coalitions of employers to help them advance health policy, leverage their collective power, and drive market change. In this episode, we talk about some examples of what that looks like in real time and how things like direct contracting may he...