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Joel Quadracci Published 9:58 a.m. CT May 30, 2017 | Updated 10:19 a.m. CT May 30, 2017

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John Zabel operates a saddle stitcher at the Quad/Graphics press operations in Sussex in 2016.(Photo: Michael McLoone, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)Buy Photo

Health affliction continues to be a red hot affair of discussion, and for acceptable reason. Access to high-quality, affordable bloom affliction is a affair for every American as the federal government continues to battle with the best solution.

Here in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has proposed the accompaniment become self-insured in an accomplishment to bigger ascendancy costs while at the aforementioned time improving the affection of bloom affliction provided to accompaniment employees. Quad/Graphics fabricated the move to self-insurance 26 years ago after regrets. It has fabricated bloom affliction advantage affordable for our aggregation which, today, employs about 20,000 bodies civic and 7,500 appropriate actuality in Wisconsin.

The success of Quad/Graphics’ bloom affliction adventure began with the accommodation to booty albatross for our employees’ bloom affliction and actively assignment to accommodate the best accessible affliction at the best affordable cost. Our acceptance was that a convalescent workforce would aftereffect in lower bloom affliction costs, and happier advisers would aftereffect in greater productivity. In this way, Quad/Graphics confused from actuality a client of bloom allowance to an broker in agent bloom and productivity. Advisers account from college affection affliction with lower abroad expenses.

Let me allotment our adventure and why it’s accordant for the state as it discusses the pros and cons of acceptable self-insured.

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My ancestor Harry V. Quadracci founded Quad/Graphics in 1971 because he believed in the ability of the chargeless market. He accepted that by demography bigger affliction of his advisers they would, in turn, booty bigger affliction of the company’s barter and the business would succeed. As the aggregation grew, he became added balked with ascent bloom allowance costs over which the aggregation had no control. At the aforementioned time, he was audition all-too-frequent complaints from advisers about the affection of affliction (or abridgement thereof).

For my father, the band-aid was clear clear: accompany bloom affliction centralized and achieve it assignment bigger for the account of everyone. He had no agnosticism it could be done. He had been bringing assorted processes and casework centralized for years (e.g., computerized apparatus controls, ink manufacturing, adolescent care, etc.). He saw no acumen why bloom affliction should be any different. So in 1991, he created QuadMed, our own absolute primary affliction provider. Having already gone self-insured, creating QuadMed was a accustomed progression for our company.

That accommodation was — and continues to be — a huge success for Quad/Graphics and our employees. Since 1991, Quad/Graphics’ bloom affliction costs consistently accept been beneath the boilerplate for the Midwest. To allegorize this point, the clinics confined Quad/Graphics anon in 2016 saw an boilerplate accumulation of 35% as compared to the Midwest boilerplate and what our costs contrarily would accept been. Helping to drive those accumulation is a 26% abridgement in emergency allowance visits due in ample allotment to the accessibility of our on-site clinics and an all-embracing focus on the bloom of our employees.

Those accumulation accept enabled us to advance in our advisers and abound our business into a apple baton in book and business casework during a time of acute industry headwinds and advancing bread-and-butter uncertainty. Last year’s after-effects are not an outlier. In fact, they are anon in band with the absorbing after-effects we accept apparent anniversary year QuadMed has been confined Quad/Graphics’ employees. Some years the amount accumulation are greater than others but the costs accept never exceeded the Midwest average.

QuadMed’s aesthetics is awfully simple: We’ll accumulate you and your ancestors associates well, and if you get sick, we’ll booty affliction of that, too. From the actual beginning, QuadMed had the able incentives to ensure aerial agent appliance and affianced medical providers who focus on befitting advisers advantageous and, therefore, abstain accidental emergency allowance visits and abiding bloom problems that charge be advised over the continued term.

At Quad/Graphics, we accept that it is our albatross to clothier our bloom affliction plan in a way that empowers the provider-patient accord in a artistic and forward-thinking way. And self-insurance is what enables Quad/Graphics to accommodate a affection bloom affliction acquaintance at a amount that both the aggregation and agent can afford, and after sacrificing capital casework that are important to our employees.

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The success of actuality self-insured has accustomed QuadMed to abound to the point area it is now accouterment absolute primary affliction casework to 100 altered audience and 264,000 lives beyond the country, of which 120,471 are in the accessible sector. QuadMed ally with 15 municipal, canton and accompaniment governments, including Ozaukee and Washington Counties, and the cities of West Bend, Wisconsin and Wichita Falls, Texas, as able-bodied as the Commonwealth of Virginia. QuadMed additionally ally with 36 academy districts who accept apparent the allowances of this model.

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Many of our audience are acclaimed Wisconsin companies, including Briggs & Stratton, Kohl’s Department Stores, Rockwell Automation, West Bend Insurance, Greenheck Fan and added civic brands such as Dow Chemical, Smith & Wesson, Whirlpool and McKee Foods. QuadMed additionally ally with bloom allowance providers nationally to added enhance their clients’ chip bloom care. All of our audience seek the aforementioned outcome: college affection bloom affliction at an affordable cost. Actuality self-insured and actively engaged in the use and administration of their bloom affliction has afforded them the befalling to achieve this two-pronged goal.

The Accompaniment of Wisconsin has abounding priorities that all crave able funding. Just aural the accomplishment sector, it is analytical that the accompaniment advance its charge to K-12 education, abstruse accomplishment training and busline infrastructure. Bigger and added able administration of the state’s own bloom affliction will accommodate amount accumulation that can be redirected into these amount casework that Wisconsin depends on for bread-and-butter growth.

It is my achievement that our adopted admiral will embrace Walker’s recommendation. In accomplishing so, they will be advance in Wisconsin’s future, giving accompaniment advisers bigger affliction at a lower cost. That's a win for accompaniment advisers and a win for taxpayers.

Joel Quadracci is chairman, admiral and CEO of Quad/Graphics.

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