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Read the full article at: [www.forbes.com](http://www.forbes.com/sites/davechase/2016/07/11/the-most-important-question-a-ceo-should-ask-their-hr-leader-or-face-the-consequences/#18c726c23f33) Chase notes “employers have abdicated far too much responsibility to the health plans they work with. This has imperiled their finances and put them in potential legal jeopardy.”  Chase goes on to list seven more recommended questions between CEOs and HR including: “Is our benefits consultant worth his/her weight in gold, or operating like stock brokers who went the way of the dodo bird?”  Chase ends with “No longer are CEOs accepting the tyranny of low expectations that slowing healthcare growth is acceptable. Not when employers, large and small, are paradoxically proving that the best way to get healthcare costs under control is to *improve* benefits.” **Employers can save money *****and***** improve benefits by switching to a more innovative healthcare model. 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