Discount health plans provide employers with an affordable alternative to group dental and health insurance. Wholesale, affinity, and private label discount dental and healthcare benefit plans offer inexpensive options to supplement existing benefit programs.
Everyone is aware of the healthcare crisis today. The ever-escalating expenses, plus other rising costs faced by companies, associations, and non-profit organizations all across America, make it difficult to meet budget requirements.
Best Discount Benefits will help you achieve significant savings on a wide variety of discount health, wellness, employee, and group benefits. Let us help you enhance the value of being an employee or member of your organization.
By way of statistics, it's estimated that 28% of US adults, or an estimated 50 million people were uninsured during the past year. More than 20% of uninsured reside in households that earn $50K or more. A growing number of middle-income families can not afford health insurance payments even when the coverage is offered by employers. Sixty four percent of the unisured are employed full-time, year round. Finally, in 2008, uninsured Americans paid $30 billion out of pocket for healthcare.
Best Discount Benefits has served many groups over the years and has researched many providers. There are such dramatic differences in the plans being offered that considerable time and effort is required to decipher them. In addition, a myriad of “discount benefits” companies have sprung-up to offer sometimes questionable programs to those unfamiliar with the industry. Some plans have virtually no providers in many geographic areas. Some plans provide much deeper savings than others. Some plans offer only very limited benefits. All of these add to the confusion. To assist you to decide what is best for your company, here are some basic facts to consider:
How to know the difference and what to expect
Voluntary Plans allow each individual member or employee the option to participate and pay for their own plan. The advantage is that there is virtually no cost to the company. The drawback is that plans set up in this manner typically draw rather low participation rates. Because of this, even if you have a very large group, discounts to normal plan costs tend to be minimal.
Non-Voluntary Plans are paid for monthly by the sponsoring organization, or company, for the benefit of the member or employee. This is when a company pays for a part or all of the cost of the benefit. As you would expect, the more the company pays, the larger the participation rate by the members / employees. In this type situation, generous discounts to normal plan pricing can be negotiated. The bigger the number of employees / members that can be guaranteed to participate on a monthly basis, the bigger the discount. Don't overlook the tax deductions of a non-voluntary plan.