The one HR benefit every startup should add
I actually really rather prefer buying my own insurance, and by that I mean I buy only the minimum required by law. Insurance companies design their policies to get more out of you then you get out of them, and they've gotten very good at figuring out ways to deny benefits to people.<p>Just give me the money in my paycheck and let me do with it as I see fit. The money I would spend on insurance I put into a personal savings account. I insure myself.<p>I spent $1200 <i>total</i> on health care costs in the last 3 years. Now that Obamacare requires I buy insurance or else get hit with a penalty, I'm going to be spending a lot more than that every year.<p>Why should it be cheaper to have group policies through employers? The entire freaking point of the insurance company is that they are pooling money from a bunch of people over time in the form of premiums to be able to distribute to a minority who need it in emergencies. It's already a paramutual arrangement, why do we have to obfuscate it with employer group policies?<p>Insurance, at least as it is done in the US, is a scam. It is an oligarchy designed to keep medical services prices high so they can justify outlandish premiums as merely just a small percentage margin.