Employee Benefit News December 16, 2025
Harrison Newman, Michael Rachesky

As healthcare premiums continue their relentless climb, employers face a familiar and frustrating cycle: enhance benefits to attract and retain talent, or scale them back to control costs. This tradeoff often results in higher out-of-pocket expenses for employees, delayed care and growing dissatisfaction with the system.

It’s a cycle that’s been repeating for decades. We chase the deepest network discounts, tweak plan designs, switch carriers, shift costs and repackage the same offerings, but the results remain largely unchanged. As the saying goes, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In many ways, that has been the story of employer-sponsored health insurance.

Now, a shift is underway. Forward-thinking companies are beginning...

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