Editor's note: To see Dave Chase speak about the currentstate of the industry, be sure to attend the 2018 BenefitsPRO Broker Expo in San Diego, April17-19, 2018.

According to the Department of Labor, companies spend an average of 31.7 percent of labor costs onemployee benefits. This is one of the fastest growing portionsof a company balance sheet, and many companies have just seemed toaccept it. Slowly, it appears there is a new movement in thebenefits space for companies fighting back. The Health RosettaProject is one of those organizations leading the chargeagainst the constant increase in benefits costs. It’s an opensource project that’s created a strategic framework for companiesto use and re-engineer their benefits packages to lower costs by 20percent to 40 percent, while improving overallbenefits.

One of the leaders in this movement is former Microsoftemployee, Dave Chase, who founded two new $1 billiondollar businesses within Microsoft, including their $2 billionhealth care platform business. He is the co-founder of HealthRosetta and executive producer of The BigHeist Movie, a film on health care that shows how and whyhealth care's financial incentives are wasting trillions of dollarswithin the United States.