WSJ: Employers Turn to Alternative for Insuring Staff

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Many small businesses have trouble providing health coverage because the costs of paying benefits for a handful of ailing employees drive up the premiums for their entire staffs.

Now an entrepreneur in Utah, relying on a wrinkle in U.S. tax law, thinks he has found a way around the problem. His idea: Employers should stop providing group health insurance and help employees get individual policies instead.

Paul Zane Pilzer, a 53-year-old economist, occasional rabbi and author of books like "God Wants You to Be Rich," isn't just concocting theories. His sales method has drawn interest from .
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Yes, that's just what we need -- get people out of group coverage and get an individual policy instead.
Sure.

someone with a pre-existing condition for any amount of money?

seeing as how God has already made him rich.

That's some catch, that Catch 22.

Get sick, kiss full time work as a regular employee goodbye or find a job that doesn't offer health insurance, anyway.

Get sick, be punished for the rest of your life by a country that hates its people.

would take a tremendous burden off of their shoulders.

"increasing costs", but fail to transfer and of their "savings" to their employeers who are now having to foot the cost at higher individual rates?

Seems the only ones making a killing are the insurance companies and more profits for the top dogs (who, most of them, can already well afford individual insurance rates). :shrug: