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The title of this article is notclick bait. I stand behind that statement and here's why: If you know a lot of the employees you provide benefitsfor are interested in the ongoing Medicare for All conversation,it's your fault! If their health insurance and health care beliefsare not in line with yours, then it's time to look in the mirror. Isay this because there are plenty of employers out there now whohave worked with their benefits advisor and fixed their company'shealth insurance programs. They've done it so well that the insuredemployees do not believe that a single-payer system is a place where the grassis greener. Can you say the same for the groups you insure?

The plans you design — and that your clients use — make up 52percent of a $3.7 trillion health insurance spend in thismarket.  This means you, the broker/consultant/adviser,whatever you chose to call yourself, have the single greatestinfluence over how people feel about health insurance in thisnation.  The benefits plans you sell affect nearly everypart of how the people you insure will use their insurance toaccess the health care system. When people are unhappy orexperience discomfort, they look for change.  The grasswill always be greener on the other side to someone who is nothappy with something. That is human behavior 101.

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