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        "uri": "/2024/02/05/9-ways-brokers-can-help-create-holistic-health-care-on-a-budget/",
        "title": "9 ways brokers can help create holistic health care on a budget ",
        "byline": "Craig Stephens",
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        "prettyDate": "February 05, 2024",
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        "summary": "Benefits advisors need to work closely with HR leaders and benefits administration providers to look at budgets and help them re-discover how core benefits can provide a total wellbeing approach to employees and their dependents. Here are nine ways they can do just that.",
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        "uri": "/2023/11/15/6-strategies-to-help-achieve-multigenerational-benefit-packages/",
        "title": "6 strategies to help achieve multigenerational benefit packages",
        "byline": "Craig Stephens",
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        "prettyDate": "November 15, 2023",
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        "summary": "Using the six strategies defined here, brokers can help organizations provide an effective and appealing benefits package suitable for all employees across all generations.",
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        "uri": "/2023/07/05/what-benefits-advisors-need-to-know-about-pbm-reform/",
        "title": "What benefits advisors need to know about PBM reform",
        "byline": "Craig Stephens",
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        "prettyDate": "July 05, 2023",
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        "summary": "Given the various proposed legislation for PBM reform, benefits brokers would be well served to be fully aware of the changes, be able to explain how they might affect their clients, and in the best-case scenario, be prepared to offer recommendations for plan changes and employee communication.",
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        "uri": "/2023/07/03/what-hr-needs-to-know-about-pbm-reform/",
        "title": "What HR needs to know about PBM reform",
        "byline": "Craig Stephens",
        "kicker": "Best Practices",
        "prettyDate": "July 03, 2023",
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        "summary": "HR leaders can ensure that employees are informed, engaged, and equipped to make the best possible decisions about their health care.",
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        "uri": "/2022/09/19/in-the-face-of-economic-uncertainty-focus-on-core-benefits/",
        "title": "In the face of economic uncertainty, focus on core benefits",
        "byline": "Craig Stephens",
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        "prettyDate": "September 19, 2022",
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        "summary": "As inflation rises and signs point to a possible recession, employers and their advisors should double down on core benefits.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2021/05/24/are-you-prepared-for-a-new-benefits-model/",
        "title": "Are you prepared for a new benefits model?",
        "byline": "Craig Stephens",
        "kicker": "Best Practices",
        "prettyDate": "May 24, 2021",
        "timeToRead": "0 minute",
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        "summary": "HR systems are being reimagined from the perspective of the needs of the employee, rather than the needs of medical claims payors and HR processes.",
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        "uri": "/2021/03/11/a-new-day-is-dawning-for-employee-benefits-are-brokers-prepared/",
        "title": "A new day is dawning for employee benefits: Are brokers prepared?",
        "byline": "Craig Stephens",
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        "prettyDate": "March 11, 2021",
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        "summary": "Brokers who want to position themselves as a trusted advisor going forward need a partner that covers these three bases solidly and expertly.",
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