Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape: How Private Exchanges are Bringing Choice and Consumerism to America's Workforce

Appendixes: A

Private Exchanges 101

This book explains why it’s so important to put the benefits consumer, or employee, first when it comes to fixing our country’s broken health care system. Looking specifically at the group insurance market, this starts with how benefits are delivered and managed by employers. In this Appendix and the two that follow, we move from the philosophical to the practical in terms of how to bring choice and consumerism to America’s workforce, starting with a brief tutorial on private exchanges.