When you’re trying to understand a problem you’re trying to solve, it sometimes helps to ask why it’s your problem. When it comes to providing healthcare benefits to employees, more than a few CEOs have wondered how they ended up with this mess on their desks.
Harvard Business Review recently published a short and excellent article tracing the evolution of healthcare benefits from the 1880s to today. It may be cold comfort but this article answers the question: “why do employers provide healthcare in the first place?”
Published in 2019
