Welcome to Broken Benefits with Lee Lewis! Whether you are the benefits manager or CEO of your organization, one of the biggest drivers of organizational performance, that most get totally wrong, is the health and benefits strategy. We spend billions on benefits, yet healthcare is unaffordable and complicated. More than half of Americans don’t even take their paid vacation, yet people are burning out faster than ever and remote work is scrambling company cultures.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Great benefits can attract and retain top talent, communicate your values, rejuvenate your productivity, move your stock price, and even save lives.
I know this because I’ve advised and learned from many Fortune 100 employers on how to create wildly profitable and popular benefits programs. I created this podcast in the hopes that together we can save lives, save dollars, and save our talent. Join us for some great conversation with some of the world’s leading experts in this space.
Broken Benefits Podcast
Whether you are the benefits manager or CEO of your organization, one of the biggest drivers of organizational performance, that most get totally wrong, is the health and benefits strategy. We spend billions on benefits, yet healthcare is unaffordable and complicated. More than half of Americans don’t even take their paid vacation, yet people are burning out faster than ever and remote work is scrambling company cultures.
It doesn’t have to be this way! Great benefits can attract and retain top talent, communicate your values, rejuvenate your productivity, move your stock price, and even save lives.
Lee knows this because he advised and learned from many Fortune 100 employers on how to create wildly profitable and popular benefits programs that enhance all areas of the business. Lee created this podcast in the hopes that together we can save lives, save dollars, and save our talent.
Join us, each episode, on YouTube or your favorite podcasting platform for some great conversation with some of the world’s leading experts in this space.
She’s led benefits for a Fortune 100 employer, provided countless bits of insight through her consulting work, and was influential in the changing of healthcare costs over the years!
On the latest episode of Broken Benefits, we’re thrilled to welcome Hellen Darling, a revolutionary healthcare innovator, to share her experiences from a lengthy career in healthcare.
Throughout her career, as well as her time leading the National Business Group on Health, Hellen was the primary lead business voice in Washington, DC advocating for jumbo employers.
Let’s get started!
Timecodes:
0:06 – Introduction and welcome to the show!
1:51 – Welcoming Hellen Darling to the show
4:28 – About 2/3 of people with healthcare have it paid for by employers
7:16 – Why the healthcare market doesn’t deliver what customers want
14:58 – Developing the appropriate plan design changes
19:19 – The invisible subtext of healthcare
25:33 – When Hellen realized that we were lacking quality measures in healthcare
31:00 – Hellen and her team wanted the health plans to provide reporting
33:50 – A message from today’s sponsor
35:52 – How Hellen built internal support within her organization
43:58 – Bringing people together and conducting a multi-employer effort
49:04 – The recipe for finding success when enacting change in healthcare
52:25 – How you can get in touch and connect with Hellen Darling
53:20 – Closing remarks
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