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        "uri": "/2022/05/16/overcoming-the-no-trade-offs-myth/",
        "title": "Overcoming the 'no trade-offs' myth",
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        "prettyDate": "May 16, 2022",
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        "summary": "One myth we hear time and again is that employees will never sacrifice any type of unfettered access to all health care and a phone book size directory to achieve significant cost savings.",
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        "uri": "/2021/09/14/why-the-flawed-hospital-price-transparency-requirements-misses-the-mark/",
        "title": "Why the flawed hospital price transparency requirements miss the mark",
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        "prettyDate": "September 14, 2021",
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        "summary": "We should all also recognize that hospital price transparency, at least in its current form, will not drive significant transformation. In fact, it won't even come close.",
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        "uri": "/2021/06/09/how-brokers-can-help-build-a-health-plan-that-employees-really-want/",
        "title": "How brokers can help build a health plan that employees really want",
        "byline": "Alan Cohen",
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        "prettyDate": "June 09, 2021",
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        "summary": "Benefits brokers can do self-funded employers a tremendous service by understanding who their employees are and how they see the world.",
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        "title": "High-value health care: A model for the future",
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        "prettyDate": "April 22, 2021",
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        "summary": "Benefits brokers have an important role to play, since they are trusted advisors who can point their clients to solutions that promote high-value health care as they work to solve the problems of affordability and access.",
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        "uri": "/2017/10/30/6-questions-to-ask-before-choosing-a-benefits-mark/",
        "title": "6 questions to ask before choosing a benefits marketplace",
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        "prettyDate": "October 30, 2017",
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        "summary": "Choice in products and plans is at the core of most online benefits marketplaces operating today. Without meaningful choice, a solution would be hard pressed to deliver the results for employee satisfaction that the industry is currently realizing.",
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