The Employer and Customer Perspective – Affordability for Michiganians
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About the Show
In this episode, we feature an honest conversation with small business owners about the rising costs of health insurance and the difficult trade-offs they face to offer coverage to their employees.
Across Michigan, businesses of all sizes are facing these escalating costs that continue to outpace other parts of their budget. And those increases don’t come without consequences. Employers are often forced to make difficult choices – whether that’s absorbing higher costs, adjusting benefits or asking employees to take on more of the burden.
At the same time, offering health coverage remains essential – not just to attract and retain talent, but to support the health and stability of their workforce.
So how are employers navigating that tension? What are they seeing firsthand – and what needs to change to make coverage more affordable long term?
Joining the conversation are Brian Calley from the Small Business Association of Michigan, Mark Ware of Mission Point Resort, Alan Young of Alan C. Young and Associates, and Andy Hetzel from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan – bringing perspectives from across the employer landscape on what affordability really looks like today.
