Vero Advising | HR & Benefits Consulting
Vero Advising collective professional background in health plan administration, hospital managed care, and agency operations exposed us to the good, the bad, and the ugly of the healthcare and benefits business.
Those of you who know me know of my New England roots and my 20-year man crush on Tom Brady. I remind my kids, in an effort to impress them, that I was once on the same plane as him from Boston to Miami, and yes, we shared the same mask-less air. So, he and… Continue reading Wake up to Tom Brady Winning #7
When I was 23, jobless, and living at home, on a whim, a couple of friends and I decided to go to Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. It’s never a good sign when there’s a convergence of 23 year old dudes, without jobs, who decide to go to a casino on a random Wednesday, and… Continue reading Turn $23,656 into $450 and Feel Good About it
We’ve all seen them. The pie charts, the itemized breakdowns, the lists of company benefits and compensation items. HR departments promote it at annual review, and HRIS systems market the easy way that they allow it to be calculated. It is the total compensation statement. I was speaking to a friend and it occurred to… Continue reading The Myth of the Total Compensation Statement
Imagine you are entering the workforce as a young man or woman. The world looks pretty scary after years of foreign war, political upheaval, and a global pandemic. There are many well-known titans of business that have made billions of dollars inventing life-changing technologies and products. You are optimistic about the future, yet nervous about… Continue reading What Difference a Century Doesn’t Make: The Roaring ‘20s -Then and Now
Guest Blog by Kevin Curran of EBSME, LLC There is an interesting trend emerging in the employee benefits industry. Highly skilled and tenured employee benefit consultants are leaving large “reputable” agencies to launch new agencies. While mergers and acquisitions dominate industry headlines, agency start-ups have seen an uptick and are an intriguing symptom of the… Continue reading Guest Blog: How Small Decentralized Benefits Agencies Are Outperforming Larger Competition
As many families are working their way through adventures in home schooling (aka crisis schooling), I can’t help but think back to the teachers I had going through the Andover (MA) Public School system. Some were good, while others were not. Then there were the teachers that absolutely stood out. I was reminded of one… Continue reading Communicating Benefits; “The Math is Easy, The English is Hard”
Until 1967, the United States was losing the air war in Vietnam. It was a time period referred to as the “suck”. With all the technological advancements until then, the US Air Force had experienced heavy casualties. The list of reasons is long, but it can be summarized in the nickname for one of the… Continue reading Leadership in Times of Crisis: Navigating the New ‘Normal’
Happy Spring! For my friends up North who’ve endured another cold winter, I know this is a welcome time of the year. For my friends down South, let’s enjoy the season before walking outside feels like inhaling damaged silk (h/t Pat Conroy). For me, spring means allergies. My eyes fill with water like I’m watching… Continue reading Step by Step… Why insurance companies ask you to take prescription drugs that you already know don’t work for you
With the 50th anniversary of the moon landing occurring last year, there have been a series of multi-part podcasts released on that seminal event of the 20th century. If you are a podcast person, I’d suggest listening to “13 Minutes to the Moon” and “The Cold War: What We Saw.” Both are fantastic accounts of… Continue reading One Small Step….For Employer Based Health Plans
“1917” was a fantastic movie. If you haven’t seen it, I strongly recommend it, even for someone like my wife, who unlike me, doesn’t wonder whether Helmuth von Moltke executed the Schlieffen Plan as intended, if Gavrilo Princip was a terrorist or hero, or who was responsible for the disaster at Gallipoli. WW1 is a… Continue reading Law of Historical Nature
