About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges employers face in providing healthcare benefits and features insights from Shawn Gremminger on potential solutions.

What if employers just stopped offering healthcare benefits to their employees? Could that happen? If the astronomical cost of healthcare keeps expanding, some employers will have no choice. That’s where our guest this week comes in. Shawn Gremminger is the President and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. His organization works with regional coalitions of employers to help them advance health policy, leverage their collective power, and drive market change. In this episode, we talk about some examples of what that looks like in real time and how things like direct contracting may help employers continue to offer benefits while staying in business. Known for his wide-ranging policy expertise, and government relations experience, Shawn brings to the National Alliance a successful record of working with coalitions, employers and other healthcare purchasers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders toward the mission of achieving high-quality, affordable, equitable healthcare. He began his career as a lobbyist for the Children’s Hospital Association and has since held senior leadership roles at Families USA and America’s Essential Hospitals.

People in this episode

Host: Zeev Neuwirth

Guest: Shawn Gremminger

Topics covered

• healthcare benefits
• employer challenges
• health policy
• market change
• direct contracting

Keywords

• healthcare
• employers
• benefits
• cost
• policy
• market change
• direct contracting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, Children’s Hospital Association, Families USA, America’s Essential Hospitals

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