Walmart Shows Way on Health Benefits By Tom Emerick What Walmart is doing is a huge step forward in truly controlling waste, overtreatment and misdiagnoses in health plans.
Not Your Mama's Recipe for Healthcare By Stephen Ambrose How do we disassemble a massively interconnected, for-profit health model that isn't working? There is a way.
Dangerous Confusion on 'Painandsuffering' By Mark Pew Treating "pain" and "suffering" as synonyms (or even a single word, "painandsuffering") has led to major problems with pain management.
There May Be a Cure for Wellness By Tom Emerick If you offer old-fashioned wellness, walk, don’t run, to the nearest exit. If you want to look at something that shows huge promise, check out Quizzify.
Language and Mental Health (Part 3) By Sally Spencer-Thomas Donna Hardaker When it comes to mental health in the workplace, the words used to describe the conditions matter a great deal.
Healthcare: When a Win-Win Is Lose-Lose By Tom Emerick While wellness at work was a noble notion and one that made sense to many on the surface, it’s time for HR executives to 'fess up and move on.
Health Startups Go After 3 Pain Points By Amy Radin Innovators addressing user pain points can influence how plans are selected and healthcare is consumed, but the levers are not easy to move.
U.S. Healthcare Actually Isn't Broken By Dan Munro No, the system is designed to be this messed up. So many people profit from the mess, and they hope the complexity will prevent hard questions.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.