As healthcare costs continue to rise, employers are trying to balance the need to take care of their workers with the need to keep costs under control. Aon’s 2025 U.S. Health Survey provides insights into the choices employers are making, and their potential effects on costs.
We predicted this would happen in 2026, but luckily that is trending up in 2025!
Days after United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered. Their highest in command wrote an opinion piece in the NY Times admitting the failure of the American healthcare system.
Princeton University professor Zeynep Tufekci shares the other sides viewpoint on why so many American's celebrated the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and viewed the assassin as some sort of folk hero.
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been a pretty polarizing issue over the last few weeks.
Our CEO tried to breakdown how these reactions came about and what you can do about it as an American.
This long podcast reveals how our broken healthcare system was built and why it is still maintained today.
The FTC brought action against the top PBMs — CVS Health's Caremark Rx, Cigna's Express Scripts, and United Health Group's OptumRx — saying the companies created a "perverse drug rebate system" that artificially inflates the cost of drugs for hardworking American's.
Employees at major companies around the US are filing lawsuits against their employers for not covering their fiduciary responsibility to reduce the cost of healthcare.
This is a wake up call for HR departments who have commonly considered "new" healthcare programs as too risky, when the bigger risk is now not taking action with the new programs created under the Affordable Care Act.
More and more states are filing class action lawsuits against America's Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). Caremark, Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx together make up about 80% of the PBM market.
PBMs negotiate with drugmakers, health insurance plans and pharmacies to set prescription drug prices and decide which drugs will
More and more states are filing class action lawsuits against America's Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). Caremark, Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx together make up about 80% of the PBM market.
PBMs negotiate with drugmakers, health insurance plans and pharmacies to set prescription drug prices and decide which drugs will be included on their so-called formularies — lists of drugs covered by insurance.
Since these programs first came about in 2016 there has been constant debate about the legal validity of these programs being offered to companies and their respective people.
Aflac and Alston & Bird LLP clear the air on IRS expectations and what you need to do to stay compliant when creating these programs.
Here's the link to the IRS Green Book (link) (General Explanations of the Administration’s Revenue Proposals). The Green Book summarizes the Administration’s tax proposals contained in the Budget. The Green Book is not proposed legislation, and each of the proposals must be introduced and passed by Congress. Of note, the Green Book is k
Here's the link to the IRS Green Book (link) (General Explanations of the Administration’s Revenue Proposals). The Green Book summarizes the Administration’s tax proposals contained in the Budget. The Green Book is not proposed legislation, and each of the proposals must be introduced and passed by Congress. Of note, the Green Book is kinda like a wishlist for the IRS.
Here's a quick recap of IRS' wishes for the taxable treatment of fixed indemnity payment to employees. Within the FY2023 Green Book (link), it can be found on page 105 of 114 (near the back of the document). Within the FY2024 Green Book (link), it was pushed back even further to page 212 of 219.
The IRS has been targeting the reimbursement of "unsubstantiated" medical expenses and bad actors in this marketplace who would set-up a fake wellness program and then fraudulently charge the client while not offering true medical benefits.
On April 3, 2024 the IRS, Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services establish
The IRS has been targeting the reimbursement of "unsubstantiated" medical expenses and bad actors in this marketplace who would set-up a fake wellness program and then fraudulently charge the client while not offering true medical benefits.
On April 3, 2024 the IRS, Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services established a tri lateral agency agreement on what is legal and what is illegal when it comes to implementing these programs in America.
The public sector is starting to get in on the action that all the private companies have long known about.
Miami became one of the first cities on record to rollout an HCA program that will save the city money while more importantly reduce healthcare costs for employees.
As healthcare costs continue to rise, employers are trying to balance the need to take care of their workers with the need to keep costs under control. Aon’s 2025 U.S. Health Survey provides insights into the choices employers are making, and their potential effects on costs.
We predicted this would happen in 2026, but luckily that is trending up in 2025!
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been shaping public health policy for decades, in keeping with his conviction that healthcare is a human right.
In this fireside chat, he’ll discuss what human rights framing should mean for health care in the U.S. He also shares his views on critical issues including prescription drug pricing, food ins
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been shaping public health policy for decades, in keeping with his conviction that healthcare is a human right.
In this fireside chat, he’ll discuss what human rights framing should mean for health care in the U.S. He also shares his views on critical issues including prescription drug pricing, food insecurity, and efforts to expand access to primary care for the hardworking American.
Hospital care contributes to 30% of the US healthcare spend. Many of these institutions are deemed as non profit. But are they really a non profit? USA Today breaks down how hospitals saved $37B in taxes while only paying out $15.2B in charity.
USA Today reveals a lot of the reasons why we pay so much for healthcare in America.
Which reason do you think is number 1?
Robert F Kennedy Jr has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US health secretary, a post that oversees everything from medical research to food safety and public welfare programs.
Speaking in an NPR interview, Kennedy said Trump had given him three “instructions”: to remove “corruption” from health agencies, to return these bodies
Robert F Kennedy Jr has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US health secretary, a post that oversees everything from medical research to food safety and public welfare programs.
Speaking in an NPR interview, Kennedy said Trump had given him three “instructions”: to remove “corruption” from health agencies, to return these bodies to “evidence-based science and medicine”, and “to end the chronic disease epidemic”.
Columbia Professor Anthony Zenkus has some rather polarizing takes on the status of America in general. His X feed can be a good place to discover some of the more unsettling parts of the US healthcare system.
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