{"id":1196,"date":"2012-01-24T14:44:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2012-01-24T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:46:46","slug":"some-employers-already-sending-workers-to-exchanges-to-buy-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/some-employers-already-sending-workers-to-exchanges-to-buy-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Employers Already Sending Workers To Exchanges to Buy Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with the unpredictable cost of health insurance for his small business, Mike Sarafolean last year made a dramatic change: Instead of picking a plan to offer workers, he now sends them to a &#8220;private exchange&#8221; or marketplace where they compare and choose their own insurance. And the amount his company pays toward coverage is capped.<\/p>\n<p>The move puts his St. Paul, Minn.-based company on the leading edge of a nascent trend that could shape how more employers offer and pay for their health benefits in the coming years. It is part of an ongoing evolution in job-based health benefits that is gradually shifting cost and responsibility to workers.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/stories\/2011\/april\/29\/private-health-exchanges.aspx\">Some Employers Already Sending Workers To Exchanges to Buy Health Insurance &#8211; Kaiser Health News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with the unpredictable cost of health insurance for his small business, Mike Sarafolean last year made a dramatic change: Instead of picking a plan to offer workers, he now sends them to a &#8220;private exchange&#8221; or marketplace where they compare and choose their own insurance. And the amount his company pays toward coverage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[125,791,792,123,793,794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}