NextGen Benefits Insights

Let’s End the Insane Status Quo in Employer-Sponsored Healthcare Plans

INSANITY: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Nothing screams “Insanity!” like the status quo in employer-sponsored healthcare plans. Here are the facts: Yet, year after year, when it comes time to renew their healthcare programs, companies across the nation double down on the insanity, simply rubber-stamping their existing policies…

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Healthcare’s Big Lie: How Healthcare’s Middlemen Have Deceived America’s C-Suites and Fleeced U.S. Business of Billions

In C-Suites across America, a quiet revolution is overthrowing the tired and unsustainable Status Quo in employee benefits  and healthcare and providing a real and permanent solution to  the healthcare cost problem.  After years of enduring steep annual increases in the cost of benefits, in 2017 the leadership of Garden State Engineering  Surveying and Planning…

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Nelson Griswold accepted into Forbes Business Council

Forbes Business Council Is an Invitation-Only Community for Successful Business Owners and Leaders Nashville, March 10, 2023 — Nelson Griswold, Chairman & Chief Evangelist of the NextGen Benefits Network, has been accepted into the Forbes Business Council, the foremost growth and networking organization for successful business owners and leaders worldwide. Nelson Griswold was vetted and…

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The Future of Health Care is Completely Sane

Headline: The Future of Healthcare is Completely Sane “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Here’s the sad truth: (1) Healthcare costs in the US continue to rise and (2) the quality of care we receive is subpar to other first-world countries. For some insane reason, year after…

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Independent Healthcare Brokers are Helping SMBs Respond to the Great Resignation

The Great Resignation. The Big Quit. The Great Reshuffle. Organizations nationwide are dealing with headline-generating events that have seen unprecedented numbers of workers leaving their jobs for better opportunities or to go it alone as independent contractors.  Throughout this transition, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) compete with national retailers for workers. And the common wisdom…

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NextGen Benefits Mastermind Celebrates 10 Years of Member Success

NASHVILLE, Tenn – The NextGen Benefits Mastermind Partnership is celebrating its 10th Anniversary as the first organization solely dedicated to building a community of health care benefits advisers and consultants committed to providing better-managed employer health care plans that make high-quality health care accessible and affordable to all Americans. Nelson Griswold, founder and chief disrupter of the NextGen…

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Educating & Empowering Health Care Consumers

NextGen Mastermind Summit guest Marshall Allen of ProPublica gives keynote entitled Educating and Empowering Health Care Consumers.

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5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System

Many factors contribute to the low — and, I would argue, somewhat misleading — ranking of the U.S. health care system vis-à-vis other wealthy nations, including a hugely heterogeneous population, an emphasis on advanced and sophisticated treatments for the most serious and complex diseases, and conditions, and a misguided focus on treating illness instead of…

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