Enhancing understanding of health insurance among the U.S. workforce

About this episode

Bryan Holgerson discusses strategies for enhancing health insurance literacy among the U.S. workforce.

The complexity of the U.S. health care system can make it difficult for people to understand their health benefits, affecting individual health and work productivity. With 164 million Americans relying on employer-sponsored health benefits, enhancing health insurance literacy is essential for improving overall health and business success. In this episode of Health Unscripted, Bryan Holgerson, president of Cigna Healthcare U.S., discusses how employers can boost health insurance literacy and offers strategies for doing so.

People in this episode

Host: The Cigna Group

Guest: Bryan Holgerson

Topics covered

• health insurance literacy
• employer-sponsored health benefits
• U.S. health care system
• work productivity
• business success

Keywords

• health insurance
• literacy
• employers
• health benefits
• productivity
• Cigna

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cigna Healthcare U.S.

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