How do you provide quality healthcare to thousands of employees—many of them hourly, spread across multiple states—with costs rising and transparency shrinking?

In this eye-opening episode of Broken Healthcare, host Ray Kober sits down with seasoned HR leader Amanda White, who pulls back the curtain on what it's really like to manage benefits for a workforce where affordability isn’t a perk—it’s survival.

🎧 What you'll hear:

• The impossible decisions HR must make between cost and care.
• The truth about GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic—and why they’re exploding your plan.
• How "free" benefits like amusement park discounts matter more than you think.
• The quiet war between HR, brokers, and big insurance—and who really wins.
• Why avoiding high-deductible plans might be the smartest move you've never made.

This isn’t theory. This is real-world leadership in a broken system.

🔔 Subscribe for honest, practical conversations that expose the cracks in U.S. healthcare—and spotlight the people fighting to fix it.

👉 Share this episode with your HR and benefits team. It might save your company—and your people.

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In this episode of Broken Healthcare, host Ray Kober sits down with Mike Stancil, a reform-minded healthcare executive and former CEO of the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health. Now at the forefront of ethical PBM transformation with AffirmedRx, Mike unpacks the dysfunction of the U.S. pharmacy benefit system — from opaque rebate schemes to profit-driven care decisions — and lays out a bold new model that puts people before profit.

💊 What does a Public Benefit Corporation PBM look like?

💥 Why are legacy PBMs compared to car salesmen with rigged pricing?

💡 How can employers and patients escape the grip of the Big Three PBMs?

If you're an employer, a healthcare insider, or just sick of rising drug costs, this conversation is your blueprint for change.

👉 Subscribe for more real talk from the front lines of healthcare reform.

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In this episode of Broken Healthcare, host Ray Kober sits down with Carey and Batya from The Big Plan to unpack one of the most disruptive ideas in employee healthcare benefits today — ICHRAs (Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements).

✅ What is an ICHRA and why should employers care?

✅ Can it actually lower costs and offer better employee coverage?

✅ Why more brokers and businesses are waking up to this game-changing strategy

✅ And how a tech-powered platform (with a squirrel mascot!) is flipping traditional group benefits on its head

From insurance flukes to Medicare reimbursements, this is a fun, smart, and brutally honest look at the future of healthcare benefits in America. Whether you're a business leader, HR professional, or just curious about why your premiums keep climbing, this is one conversation you can't afford to miss.

👂 LISTEN NOW and learn how to give your employees more choice, your company more control, and your healthcare plan a much-needed overhaul.

📌 Learn more: https://thebigplan.com

📌 Connect with Ray: https://benefixa.com

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