CLEARly Beneficial Podcast

About CLEARly Beneficial Podcast

CLEARly Beneficial Podcast: Where We Rip Off the Band-aid and Explore What's Next Welcome to the CLEARly Beneficial podcast - the show where we rip off the band-aid on healthcare and explore the future of benefits with the people driving innovation in our industry. Host Vincent Catalano brings over 20 years of health insurance brokerage expertise to conversations that get to the real story. You'll discover what actually works, what doesn't, and what's coming next from the innovators brave enough to challenge how we've always done things. Whether you're an insurance broker navigating carrier politics, an HR professional trying to make sense of complex plan designs, or an employer seeking practical solutions for your people, this podcast delivers the straight talk and actionable insights you need. We rip the band-aid off and give you the inside perspective that only comes from decades in the trenches. Ready to see what's really happening in healthcare? Let's explore the future together.

Publisher

Vincent Catalano

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Sept 2025

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Collaboration vs. Silos - The Model to Solving Healthcare

   Collaboration vs. Silos - The Model to Solving Healthcare Healthcare didn’t break by accident. It broke into silos. In this solo episode, Vincent reacts to John Oliver’s takedown of UnitedHealth Group and makes the case that today’s system is a product of the Affordable Care Act. Two thousand pages of legislation that almost no one understood sent every player into their own armed camp: insurers, hospital systems, pharma and PBMs, device makers, and now a wave of venture-funded AI companies. ...

2. 

   3 Sept 2026

   [S2E25] Rethinking Employee Benefits Strategies and Health Literacy With Vincent Catalano

   Most benefit plans are a ball of band-aids. Patched year after year, never rebuilt from scratch. In this crossover episode, Vincent Catalano sits down with Seth Serxner, PhD, MPH, Chief Health Officer at EdLogics, for a conversation originally recorded for Seth's podcast, Workforce Health Literacy. Vincent and Seth dig into why the process of building a benefits strategy is fundamentally broken. They unpack the "benefits hamster wheel" most employers get stuck on: shell-shocked after open enr...

3. 

   28 Jul 2026

   [S2E24] The Kaiser/Non-Kaiser Death Spiral: What Employers Need to Know

   It's almost renewal season. Covered California just posted a 10% average rate increase, and small groups could be looking at 10 to 15%. But the number on your renewal isn't the real threat to your plan. Kaiser might be. Vincent Catalano, founder of CLEAR Healthcare Solutions, spent years as one of the top three Kaiser brokers in the Sacramento region with thousands of Kaiser members in his book of business. In this episode, he breaks down a pattern he watched play out again and again: employe...

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