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Friday, October 03, 2003California, for example, seems determined to keep itself stuck firmly in the 20th century by trying to require further costly health insurance mandates on employers. If California employers who pay wages of, say, $25,000 per year, are required to purchase $8,000 health insurance plans to cover their workers' families, the result will be that companies will have to fire people in order to cover the workers they still have. The unintended but unavoidable consequence of trying to extend the state's old-fashioned employer-centered health insurance system will be higher unemployment and fewer business startups. The fact is that fewer and fewer Americans are following the career paths of their parents and grandparents—i.e., graduating from high school, going to work for one big company that provides health insurance for the worker's family, and retiring at 65 with a company pension. In the 2lst century, workers change jobs more frequently, more people are working for smaller companies that offer fewer benefits, and one in 12 Americans will start her own business. What is needed is a more flexible health insurance system to meet the needs of the modern world. So why not let workers decide how to handle their own health insurance needs? Yeah. Why not? There's an opportunity here for a forward-looking health insurance company. If there is such a thing. My husband and I have spent much of the past month looking for a health insurance policy for our family, and it's no easy thing to find. Most of the big insurance companies don't offer individual policies, but prefer only to deal with employers. There's a market void out there that's just waiting to be filled. posted by Sydney on 10/03/2003 11:19:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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