EP224: Underestimate Employers at Your Peril, With Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, Executive Director of Catalyst for Payment Reform

Underestimate Employers at Your Peril, With Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, of Catalyst for Payment Reform (EP224)

"Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Others Doing It." Episode 224.

Employee deductibles now cost as much as a new midsize sedan every year, and employer health care spend is chewing up what would otherwise be raises — leaving employers and their CFOs in a position where acting on health care costs is no longer optional. In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform and founding CEO of The Leapfrog Group, about the real change employers are capable of driving.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✅ Why employee deductibles have grown to the point that employees effectively can't afford to use the health plans they're enrolled in

✅ Why employers and their CFOs are being forced to act on health care costs rather than treating it as optional

✅ How organizations like Catalyst for Payment Reform are helping employers translate their purchasing power into real change

✅ Suzanne Delbanco's perspective from also having founded The Leapfrog Group, another organization built around employer-driven health care accountability

WHY THIS MATTERS

Providers, carriers, and pharma companies that dismiss employers as a weak force for change do so at their own risk — the economics of rising deductibles and stagnant wages are pushing employers toward exactly the kind of collective action Catalyst for Payment Reform represents. Suzanne Delbanco's track record suggests this isn't a passing trend.

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