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In this episode, we sit down with Tracy Watts, senior partner, national leader for U.S. Health Care Policy at Mercer. The wide-ranging discussion includes her thoughts on all the noise coming out of Washington D.C. right now to a few of the innovative benefits design strategies and ideas she’s watching most closely right now.

Demand was strongest in the South, followed by the Midwest, West and East.

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