Hosts Doug Field, CEO of The Institute for Healthcare Consumerism (IHC), and Ron Bachman, Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board for the IHC, talk with our very own David Daskal about the importance of good benefits communication.

If employers find that explaining benefits to their employees is challenging now, then they should brace themselves for fall enrollment when workers are expected to receive an avalanche of marketing materials from insurers, health insurance exchanges and government agencies in anticipation of health care reform, experts say. In addition to sifting through their own company’s benefits plans, employees will also be getting marketing materials from private and state health care exchanges, insurance providers and others who are expected to start … Read More

It happens during every enrollment season at every company around the country. Overwhelmed by the volume of decisions they have to make in such a narrow window of time, employees march themselves through their benefits selections on autopilot. Instead of paying attention to all the carefully prepared benefits education materials and employee communications, they simply end up selecting the same medical insurance package they’ve always had. Unfortunately, as anybody in the benefits space can tell you, those selections don’t always … Read More