[Hidden-tech] Health Savings Accounts

[Juliet Jacobson]

I'd be interested if forming a group if it would really work. But, why 
would we start a new group when there are existing groups one can join 
for a small fee ($125 to join the Mass Small Business Assoc.) I would 
think that these groups would be larger and would therefore get any 
discount that a newly formed group would get. The rates I'm seeing 
(about $680 on up for family coverage with no frills) are through the 
MSBA.

Juliet

On Mar 1, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Ben Liyanage wrote:

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> Yikes!!!  It sounds like you are all paying through the nose for your 
> health
> insurance...
>
> I get my bcbs through a company I used to work with in MD for 
> something like
> 200/mo.  It sounds to me like a bargaining collective is needed to 
> drive
> down all of your insurance costs.  I know I most certainly don't cost 
> the
> health insurance companies 24k/yr, and I'm not even paying that much in
> comparison to you guys...
>
> Though I'm not really shopping for health insurance at the moment, I 
> would
> be interested in seeing how to set up a health insurance co-op of 
> sorts that
> could help beat this fat industry down to size.  How many people would 
> be
> interested in this?
>
> Ben Liyanage
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> [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net]On Behalf Of 
> Jeanne
> Yocum
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> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Health Savings Accounts
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>> From: Christian Lagier <clagier at sprynet.com>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:38:59 -0500
>> To: Jonathan Dill <jfdill at jfdill.com>
>> Cc: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
>> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Health insurance - HSA experience?
>>
>> Does anybody have any experince with HSAs in Massachusetts? Who 
>> provides
>> them?
>
> Hi,
>
> Having received my April invoice from Harvard Pilgrim yesterday that 
> showed
> a 14% increase for the year which takes my insurance  to over 
> $400/month for
> coverage for just one person, I called my broker and asked about the 
> Health
> Savings Accounts that I had heard were coming.  They told me Harvard 
> Pilgrim
> was just introducing one, but the cost of it for me would be over $500 
> a
> month!  Don't mean to be discouraging, but apparently the pricing on 
> these
> isn't going to be any more affordable, although perhaps the coverage is
> better.
>
> Jeanne Yocum
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