Eazy Benefits & the Smart Health Benefits Association
Helping Shape the Future of Employee Benefits in Canada
The employee benefits landscape is changing quickly. New government programs, healthcare pressures, evolving regulations and rising plan costs can all have a significant impact on employers and their employees.
Eazy Benefits is committed to staying involved in the conversations shaping the future of private benefits and retirement plans in Canada.
Through the Smart Health Benefits Association (SHBA), benefits professionals, employers and industry leaders are working together to advocate for sustainable solutions that protect access to workplace benefits and strengthen Canada’s broader healthcare system.
What is the Smart Health Benefits Association?
The Smart Health Benefits Association (SHBA) is a national not-for-profit organization focused on protecting and strengthening private employee benefit and retirement plans across Canada.
SHBA brings together expertise from across the benefits industry to ensure the perspectives of employers and plan members are represented as governments, regulators and industry stakeholders make decisions that could affect workplace coverage.
Its work focuses on some of the biggest issues facing Canadian benefits plans today, including:
Why This Matters to Employers
Changes to healthcare policy rarely happen in isolation. Decisions surrounding pharmacare, dental coverage, taxation, regulation or healthcare delivery can directly affect the cost and structure of an employer-sponsored benefits plan.
Having a strong industry voice helps ensure that the impact on employers and employees is considered before those decisions are made.
For organizations, that means greater advocacy for a benefits system that remains:
Sustainable
Supporting the long-term affordability and viability of employer-sponsored benefits.
Accessible
Helping Canadians continue to access the healthcare, medications and support they need.
Flexible
Protecting employers' ability to build benefits programs around the needs of their workforce.
Forward-Looking
Preparing for changes in healthcare, regulation and employee expectations before they become challenges for plan sponsors.
Bringing Industry Insight Back to Our Clients
For Eazy Benefits, being involved in conversations like these is about more than staying informed.
It allows our team to better understand emerging issues, anticipate changes and bring those insights directly into the advice we provide our clients.
Whether we are reviewing a benefits plan, developing a long-term strategy or helping an organization respond to a changing benefits environment, we want our recommendations to reflect both what is happening today and what may be coming next.
That is part of our approach to benefits consulting: proactive advice rather than reactive service.
A Stronger Voice for Canadian Employers
Employer-sponsored benefits play an important role in the health, financial security and wellbeing of millions of Canadians.
Protecting that system requires collaboration between employers, benefits consultants, insurers, healthcare providers, policymakers and other industry stakeholders.
Organizations like SHBA create an opportunity for those voices to come together, identify challenges and advocate for practical solutions that work for both Canadian employers and their employees.
At Eazy Benefits, we’re proud to contribute to that conversation.
Benefits Should Be Eazy.
Your benefits strategy should respond to more than your next renewal.
Eazy Benefits helps Canadian organizations build and manage group benefits and retirement programs with a focus on cost management, employee experience and long-term strategy.