Monday, March 5, 2012

The Major Advantages Of Group Health Insurance

By Guster Shaw


As the name may suggest, group health insurance is a coverage plan that covers a group of people and not an individual. Members of societies, members of professional groups, or people working in the same company are good examples of those who benefit the most from these plans. The most common example, however, is that taken by employers to their employees?

This type of coverage significantly minimizes the setback of adverse selection by bringing together a pool of individuals who are eligible for indemnity and who belong to a faction for reasons other than for the purpose of getting health coverage.

What this means is that people belong to the group not because they have some high risk factor that may deter them from getting insurance, but because they are in the faction for reasons that are completely unrelated to indemnity, e. G. All working for the same employer. This health insurance has several advantages over individual health insurance.

The first notable advantage is that the premium cost that members pay is not based on their individual risk factors. Rather, it is the same amount for all the members insured under the same plan. In other words, all employees, regardless of their age, sex, or credit score are entitled to the same level of coverage and will pay the same premium amount.

In other words, if you were to take an individual policy plan, it means that the monthly premium rates that you would be paying would be determined by your individual pre-existing conditions that would determine your risk factor, e. G. Your sex, age, location etc.

The second notable advantage is that members would generally be eligible to buy or renew their coverage for as long as they are still active members of the faction subject to preset terms and conditions. In most cases, the insured party will normally remain insured for as long as they continue working for their employer and that they pay the required premiums, which are often deducted from their paycheck.

On the flip side of the coin, under the individual plan, the service provider often has the right not to renew an individual policy plan when it is up for renewal, should they feel that the risk profile of the insured party has changed.

Many people are further attracted to this policy because unlike an individual plan where part of the qualifying process is undergoing a thorough medical and physical test, the only main qualification required in the group policy is being a member of the faction being insured.

If an insured party is injured and becomes severely ill while under the group policy, the policy cannot be cancelled, which is mostly the case with private plans? It is no wonder this type of coverage is considered the safest type of coverage available today.

The other notable benefit is that should an insured party lose their job, they can still be eligible for coverage, even if for a short period of time, under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). Of course this option is never available in individual plans. Group Health Insurance Plans are not only beneficial to employees but also the employers since they are entitled to annual tax incentives.




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