Employee-Paid

The National Council of Insurance Legislators has created a template for efforts to help employers' cash-for-coverage plans.

Over half (56%) of the employees surveyed say financial stress negatively affects their work, and concerns over the effects of inflation and recession are causing 61% to reduce contributions to workplace benefits.

The discount coupon site has also added entries for about 600 generic drugs.

One carrier reviewed about four times as many medical and surgical services as the other did.

Your surgical costs are not a vendor problem. They are not a plan design problem. They are a market structure problem. And the market structure was built by the people sending you the invoices.

Employers could also end up with more workers using catastrophic health plans.