Ep #251: What If Employees Owned Their Employer-based Plans? – with Mark Blum

Mark Blum has taken a very different path to get to the healthcare universe – starting as a labor organizer and negotiator who quickly found healthcare to be the most frequent stumbling stone in negotiations. The determination to find a way to resolve that issue has brought him to some interesting destinations and some surprising conclusions along the way. He is Executive Director of America’s Agenda, a non-profit healthcare delivery innovation center, and also serves as President of SolidaritUS Health.What You’ll Learn From this Episode:How his beginnings in labor influenced the questions and answers he found going forward.What worked in Maine and in Vermont, and how that informs newer challenges.What happened when the ACA meteor landed on healthcare.What are “labor-owned” plans and what impact could they have?How he created an eBay type environment for one state to solicit bids for pharmacy plans and what that saved.