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Al Lewis keeps you up to date on employee health trends, wellness strategies and health literacy topics.

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How the FDA lets food companies "poison" our kids

What you are about to read may upset you, especially if you are a parent of a child who has consumed these things. (Which is to say,...

Nov 75 min read

Ignore the New Negative Findings on Weight Loss Drugs

The newest findings reveal that there is not even a slight offset in reduced healthcare expense from weight loss drugs during the first...

Oct 106 min read

Six Things Employees Should Know about Antibiotics

Find this information useful? The only way your employees can easily access information like this, in our engaging Q&A format, is via...

Oct 13 min read

The Glide Path to Controlling your GLP spend

We’ve been pitching employee education on weight loss drugs all year. Obviously we’re enjoying some success, or we wouldn’t keep doing...

Sep 165 min read

How to Dissuade the GLP-Curious and Educate the GLP-Serious

Dissuade the GLP-curious and educate the GLP-serious. Say that three times fast, because that’s the key to affordable coverage of weight...

Jul 112 min read

Does Covering Weight-Loss Drugs Expose You to ERISA Liability?

One would expect that employees could sue you for not covering weight-loss drugs but that scenario is very unlikely in an ERISA plan. It...

Jul 82 min read

Wall Street weighs in on weight-loss drugs

In case you missed it, here is the latest from the we-know-more-than-you-do investor newsletter crowd , with our comments indented. "Read...

Jun 275 min read

6 Steps to Control the Use of Weight Loss Drugs

Never before in the history of healthcare has anything – any drug, procedure, test, anything – combined asmuch effectiveness, popularity...

Jun 256 min read

Six Reasons to Add Health Education to Your Employee Benefits

Would you give every employee an unlimited budget to spend however they like? No. of course not. But isn't that exactly what you do with...

Jun 45 min read

The 5 Best Ways to Waste Money in Healthcare

Yikes! The most careful analysis ever, done for Washington state, reveals that 38% of all heatlhcare spending is wasted. And that...

Mar 255 min read

The Top 20 Easiest Ways to Change Employee Health Behavior (Part 1)

This is the first in a three-part series Quizzify changes behavior through knowledge, not willpower. The actual changes below are quite...

Mar 126 min read

Americans are overdiagnosed, overtreated – and overdosed.

With all the vendors, providers, and manufacturers urging us to get more medical care (always somehow “showing savings” in the process),...