Employer-sponsored healthcare covers more than 150 million Americans — yet costs continue to rise, outcomes remain inconsistent, and employee experience often falls short.

In this episode of Path to Abundant Living, Matt Nordmann sits down with Lee Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer of the Health Transformation Alliance, to examine what’s fundamentally broken in employer healthcare — and what it would take to rebuild it from the ground up.

Drawing from his experience advising Fortune 10 employers, launching two dozen health-benefit startups, and helping shape open-source employer benefits strategy through Health Rosetta, Lee offers a candid look at why decades of “cost containment” haven’t worked. The conversation explores misconceptions among CFOs, the realities of healthcare innovation, overhyped trends, and the structural forces driving costs beyond inflation.

Matt and Lee also discuss the future: Will employer-sponsored healthcare still exist in 20 years? Where is meaningful disruption most likely to emerge? And how will AI and predictive analytics reshape benefits strategy?

This episode challenges leaders to think beyond incremental savings and consider what true transformation requires.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

3:36 - The core issue within healthcare benefits

13:12 - Understanding and leveraging your data

19:33 - Be ruthless with your efficiency

27:30 - Building better benefits for your employees

40:53 - The future of healthcare benefits

52:24 - Connect with Lee on LinkedIn

55:00 - Key takeaways

58:20 - Closing remarks