Joe Markland

Bipartisan support is building for allowing working Americans to purchase an individual health policy with pretax dollars without requiring an employer's permission.

Alternative "leagues" that leverage bad rules to a competitive advantage at the expense of others must be eliminated.

Rather than putting employees into cookie-cutter programs to control costs, they would be better served with an ICHRA.

If you don't understand how and why a hospital bill is what it is, blame our healthcare financing system — not the hospital.

ICHRAs shift the purchasing power from employers to tens of millions of consumers for a truly affordable solution to rising costs.

Employers can help level the playing field by adopting an Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Account, which will allow them to customize their benefits and avoid subsidizing coverage for segments of the workforce.

By transferring healthcare purchasing power (and deductions) to the consumer, we’d see a swifter embrace of life-saving technologies, systems and data.

In a world of personalized goods and services, why are benefits still one-size-fits-all?

To improve their clients’ experience, advisers should focus on outcomes — not technology.

Benefit technology is quickly becoming more useful with the advent of artificial intelligence and personal assistants.

Benefit technology is quickly becoming more useful with the advent of artificial intelligence and personal assistants.

Many brokers say they never lost a client to Namely or similar companies — what they don’t know is how many prospects they lost to these firms.

All the noise surrounding the ACA may be hiding the fire that is also burning in the employer healthcare market, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.

All the noise surrounding the ACA may be hiding the fire that is also burning in the employer healthcare market, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.

Brokers are trying to help employers control costs, but are seeing little success, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.

Brokers are trying to help employers control costs, but are seeing little success, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.

Just as a world of apps has built up around the iPhone, so must advisers recognize where they fit in today’s tech-driven workplace environment, says Joe Markland.

If employers can’t find solutions to their benefit challenges, they should look for new providers and technologies, says adviser Joe Markland.

If employers can’t find solutions to their benefit challenges, they’ll look for new providers and technologies that can help.

The tech-focused brokerage is now in its ‘second version’ with former PayPal exec David Sacks in charge, says HR Technology Advisors’ Joe Markland.