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LaborPress Radio's Alex Garrett Talks With EmblemHealth CEO Karen Ignani At the Heroes of Labor Awards 10-9-2024 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, a very special moment here for Labor
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  Speaker 1: Press as we welcome once again Karen ing Nanni, the
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  Speaker 1: CEO of Emblem Health at your Heroes of Labor Awards.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being here. We're so happy
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  Speaker 2: to welcome you.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about Emblem Health's commitment to the unions.
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  Speaker 2: Firstly, our commitment to the unions is long, it's deep,
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  Speaker 2: and it's wide. We have been partnering with labor unions
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  Speaker 2: for decades and it will continue for many decades to
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  Speaker 2: come because we are a union company. We're the only
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  Speaker 2: health plan that's a union company, and we provide health
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  Speaker 2: benefits for one point two million city workers along with
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  Speaker 2: another number of other unions as well and employers. And
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  Speaker 2: we feel very strongly that our commitment to labor unions
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  Speaker 2: is something that they deserve, something that we work very
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  Speaker 2: hard to do every day, and we will continue to
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: How does the Emblem because I know you're basically the
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  Speaker 1: leading union healthcare and how do you guys manage all
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  Speaker 1: the different unions you're partnered with?
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  Speaker 2: Basically, it's just such a pleasure actually just to have
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  Speaker 2: gotten to know so many union leaders and so many
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  Speaker 2: of the rank and file union members here to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that we're doing what they need. We're thinking ahead,
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  Speaker 2: we're bringing innovation, we're bringing modernization, and we're bringing the
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  Speaker 2: best of the best of their members because they deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how about eminem health is you're also out there
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  Speaker 1: for the public. You make sure the public knows everything.
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  Speaker 1: So what as we talk now, is most concerned when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to New York City.
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  Speaker 2: What we're most concerned about is what everyone else is
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  Speaker 2: most concerned about. That we get people moving across the
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  Speaker 2: city safely, that we have the opportunity as a city
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  Speaker 2: to thrive and grow, and to make sure that people
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  Speaker 2: have the healthcare they need, which includes physical health, mental health,
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  Speaker 2: and all the other services that are so important to people.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, now a million people in New York City. What's
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  Speaker 1: it like to you deleat one of the the leading
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  Speaker 1: healthcareism in New York City? What does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: It is such I get out of bed every morning
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  Speaker 2: and I think it is such an honor to have
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  Speaker 2: this role. I come from a union family. My dad
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  Speaker 2: was a firefighter, my mom was a city worker. So
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  Speaker 2: I and my dad actually worked for the firefighters union
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  Speaker 2: and for the firefighters. As a firefighter before, they had
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  Speaker 2: health benefits, so I understand what it's like and how
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  Speaker 2: important it is to have health benefits. So we take
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  Speaker 2: this job in this role very very seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're honoring the transit workers today, I mean without them,
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  Speaker 1: we're not getting aywhere in the city, right, So talk
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  Speaker 1: about the TWU that you're honoring today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited about this because talk about keeping the
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  Speaker 2: city rolling. They keep the city rolling. I'm a bus rider,
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  Speaker 2: I love the crosstown buses. I'm a suby writer, and
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  Speaker 2: I so appreciate the work that the men and women
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  Speaker 2: of the TWU do every day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so appreciate you said you're taking subway in bus,
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  Speaker 1: because CEO, you're not just wheeling in. You're with us
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  Speaker 1: amongst the crowd, I can tell you.
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  Speaker 2: And I try to outsmart the schedule, so I end
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  Speaker 2: up taking three trains and just to make sure I
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  Speaker 2: can get to from point A to point B the
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  Speaker 2: quickest possible.
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  Speaker 1: I understanding there's an annual event, the Heroes of Labor,
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  Speaker 1: So to put this on here at Emblem Health for you,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like it means a lot and every year,
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  Speaker 1: just having all these people here. What's that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I just wouldn't miss it. It means it just
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  Speaker 2: makes me so proud. It gives me goosebumps when I hear,
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  Speaker 2: even though I read about these stories ahead of time,
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  Speaker 2: when I see these individuals, these individual heroes, hear their stories,
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  Speaker 2: hear their words from their own mouths, it just gives
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  Speaker 2: me pride.
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  Speaker 1: And one message from Endlem Help to the same of
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  Speaker 1: New York as we say right now October twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: US, it's our pleasure to serve you. We will continue
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  Speaker 2: to do so. Please understand how seriously we take that responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love that. Alex Garrett here with Karen Ing Nanny,
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  Speaker 1: the CEO of Emblem Help. Thanks for joining so much.
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  Speaker 1: Right I'm here with Charles give the President, as we
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  Speaker 1: said right now, October twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Just it's our flavor event with health, take that responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love that. Alex Garrett here with Karening Nanni,
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  Speaker 1: the CEO of Embelm Help, Thanks for joining so much,