Employers are being forced to make harder benefits decisions than ever before. Rising costs, high turnover, and uneven access to care have turned benefits strategy into a series of real trade-offs, not theoretical ones.
Recorded live at Garner’s Strategic Advisors Summit in Park City, this episode of Margin of Care features Steven Reszczynski, VP of Benefits at Global Medical Response, and Courtney Rodriquez, SVP of People Success and Enablement at MarketStar. Together, they share how they are rebuilding benefits strategies in the wake of COVID while balancing employee experience, financial sustainability, and trust.
The conversation covers how mental health has become a core cost driver, when narrow networks work and when they break down, why ER overuse remains so difficult to solve, and how GLP-1 coverage is forcing employers to rethink ROI in the face of high attrition. This is a candid look at how benefits leaders are navigating cost, care quality, and workforce expectations heading into 2026. Margin of Care is presented by Garner Health. Learn more at getgarner.com