A Tough Negotiator Proves Employers Can Bargain Down Health Care Prices

(By Marshall Allen for ProPublica and co-published by NPR)

Marilyn Bartlett took a deep breath, drew herself up to her full 5 feet and a smidge, and told the assembled handful of Montana officials that she had a radical strategy to bail out the state’s foundering benefit plan for its 30,000 employees and their families.

The officials were listening. Their health plan was going broke, with losses that could top $50 million in just a few years. It needed a savior, but none of the applicants to be its new administrator had wowed them. Continue reading article here…

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