Featured Topic:

Impact of Inflation on the Rising Costs of Health Care

As inflation roars across the United States at a pace we haven’t seen in recent history, prices at the gas pump top
$5/gallon, mortgage rates take their biggest weekly jump since 1987, consumers are feeling the crunch. Layer that
on top of the fact employers have seen an average of a 6% annual increase in healthcare costs between 1999-2021,
(according to the Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Employer Sponsored Health Benefits) the median launch
price of a new drug in the US soared from $2,115 in 2008 to $180,000 in 2021 (Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston), and the headwinds faced by hospitals and providers with rising labor costs and a burned out workforce,
how are you taking control of your benefits spend?

Speaker:

Teri Gibson, Principle, Benefit Advisor, TrueNorth Companies

•     11:30-11:50 Log onto Zoom/Check-in/Networking
  
•     11:50-12:00 Chapter Announcements & Speaker Introduction
•     12:00-1:00 Presentation, Q&A

Guests:

Guests are welcome to join virtually for $20 or in-person for $40

Registration Deadline:

Monday, August 8th @ 5pm

Lunch:

TBD

Member: $30

Non-Member:$40

Location:

Zoom & The Warehouse on State

736 SW Washington St

Peoria, IL

Meeting Sponsored By:

Sam Houston

shouston@truenorthcompanies.com