Healthy Business Matters · 2026-02-03 · 17 min
Most employer health initiatives don’t fail because employers don’t care or because the ideas are bad. They fail because they’re built on top of a system that still rewards treatment , not prevention . Employers say they want employees to be more proactive instead of reactive. So they launch programs that feel proactive wellness challenges, education, apps, screenings. But many of those initiatives are adjacent to the outcome, not aligned with it . In this episode, Dr. Andrew White walks through a practical framework you can use with any health vendor or program to understand why so many well-intentioned initiatives don’t move risk and how to avoid that trap.
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