EMPLOYERS ARE DESPERATE TO FIND A SOLUTION Employers are desperate to find a way to make employee benefits affordable, competitive, beneficial, and just work. Unfortunately, it's just not working. Health insurance is usually the #2 largest expense on an employer's books (right after salaries!) and most treat it like overhead. Employees are unhealthy, costs go up, and you wonder how you can continue to afford benefits from year to year while staying in business. WHAT IF SOMEONE FIGURED IT OUT?What if instead, you were able to use employee benefits as an incentive to drive employee engagement, improved health, and increased profits - all while achieving high performance without paying any more than you already are? What if employees could pay less, the company could save millions, and employees could have access to expanded health coverage all with paying probably less than what you are today? Impossible?Dr. Larson has rallied key talent more than once to fundamentally change the way healthcare is managed inside of an organization. More than once, Larson has helped put the pieces in place to build strong partnerships with employees, carriers, vendors, and others to save millions on health insurance for plans, reduce costs for employees, expand coverage for participants and families, engage employees to change behavior, and reform healthcare at the local level. He shares the philosophy, foundation, perspectives and know-how in this book.WHAT IF THE SOLUTION IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU?The solutions to our healthcare dilemma in the U.S. has been right here in front of us all along. Unfortunately, we've been focusing on the things that matter least as solutions to the questions that matter the most. Waiting on the government to find a solution through healthcare reform will not bring the cure to our healthcare epidemic. Healthcare reform is local - specific to our employees and our own workforce. What we do within the walls of our own company will have a far greater impact on our costs than anything Congress or anyone else can do. It's up to us to find, develop and implement those solutions to maintain and develop the solutions that will work for our organization and our people. Within this book, Dr. Larson shares his perspectives of what these tools, processes, and functions are that can make the biggest difference. With decades of experience in HR, benefits, and human development, Dr. Larson has managed or consulted on benefits for multiple entities throughout the course of the past decades and understands what works when it comes to making the changes needed to affect health, outcomes, and costs. This book is a compendium of those resources he has utilized in setting up and revising benefits programs through his experiences. He shares the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to programs and tools. This is not meant to be another textbook on wellness and healthcare. There are several of those books on the market written by people who wrote them based on theory, research and OTHER peoples' stories. Instead, this is a first-hand perspective written from one well-experienced practitioner's view of what works. This book is the structured sharing of best practices from someone who has been there, done that. It is not filled with links to outside research and data points but is instead filled with guidance, perspectives, and lessons learned from years of practical experience and proven results. Want another research book that will sit on the shelf unread? Go find another book. Need something with real ideas, practical concepts, and that is written directly with a disruptive "no holds barred" approach that you'll turn to time and time again? This is the one to drop a dollar on.