Boardroom Rebels: Reinventing Employee Health Benefits
When corporate innovators challenged tax codes and transformed how American workers could protect their families' financial futures.
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When Healthcare Costs Became America's Next Big Challenge
The 1970s marked a turning point when healthcare spending began outpacing everything else in the economy, sparking the first wave of creative cost management solutions.
How Nixon's Bold Healthcare Gamble Created Modern HMOs
On December 29, 1973, President Nixon signed a revolutionary law that would reshape American healthcare forever, betting that managed care could solve the nation's cost crisis.
When Companies Started Bribing Workers with Health Insurance
The post-war job boom of the late 1940s accidentally created America's employer-based healthcare system when desperate companies used benefits to compete for scarce workers.
The Wartime Experiment That Changed American Healthcare
How Kaiser Permanente's revolutionary prepaid group practice model, born from World War II industrial medicine, challenged the traditional fee-for-service system.
The Unlikely Birth of Employer Benefits: How Early Industrial Companies Created Modern Workplace Protections
In the late 1800s, pioneering companies like Montgomery Ward invented employee benefits, transforming workplace relationships and laying the groundwork for modern compensation strategies.
How Congress Created Modern Workplace Safety Standards
In 1970, Congress passed groundbreaking legislation establishing OSHA, transforming workplace safety from a patchwork of local rules to a comprehensive national system protecting 56 million workers.