2025: State of the States

2025: State of the States

Tracy Watts, David Dross, and Rich Glass preview benefits-related legislative activity in the states and share what employers should keep an eye on in 2025.

Election 2024: Supporting a healthy workplace and civic engagement

Tracy Watts is joined by Steven Levine and Stephen Massey from the Health Action Alliance as they discuss how employers can support all employee needs during the current political season.

Addressing persistent health benefit cost growth

Employers are expecting a third consecutive year of high health benefit cost increases. Tracy Watts talks with Maura Cawley about strategies employers are using to address rising costs.

Benefits carriers are leaning in on health equity

We’ve seen good momentum over the four years we’ve been conducting our Carrier Diversity, Equity & Inclusion RFI. Tracy Watts speaks with Samantha Fulton about the latest results and the ways carriers are leaning in to health equity initiatives.

SCOTUS weakens agency power: Implications for employer health plans

The US Supreme Court has ruled that courts will no longer give deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. Dorian Smith joins Tracy Watts to discuss the practical implications of this opinion on employer-sponsored health plans.