Sams Club announced that it has opened a private health exchange for its members. Given the press release from the retailer announced that Sam's Club is with Aetna to open the Partnership hosted an exchange for small businesses to find affordable health care for their employees, who are struggling.
background on private exchanges
private health insurance exchange is a business or business insurance products specializing. More specifically, is a health insurance exchange, a health insurance quote of the agent to individuals and / or employees. Private health insurance exchange usually contain the following components:
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A selection of two or more health insurance options
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advice and recommendation on what health insurance options best fit your needs
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Automated billing for premium health insurance (e)
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on-going support for health insurance plan (s)
Sams Club private market
Sam's Club is a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. This announcement came just weeks after Walmart announced its parnership with DirectHealth.com and their entry into the world of the individual health insurance.
According to the Association Press Release Sam, the "Aetna marketplace Sams Club is the first mass-market supported private health developed exchange to meet the needs of both the small entrepreneurs to meet and their employees." The exchange is aimed at Sams Club business promotional members with two or more employees in 18 countries.
Although the exchange has only plans of insurance, Sams Club is hoping to offer a popular alternative to Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP Market Place), the roll-out flopped last year, and has failed to meet their enrollment targets in many countries.
Read the press release from Sam's Club.
The SHOP flop
developed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to ask the SHOP marketplace small employers with more options for their health plan. The rollout of the SHOP marketplace has its share of obstacles, changes are faced, and delays. The SHOP marketplace is still not working for small businesses. It has in the implementation of SHOP market program and its features several delays, including:
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The "Employee Select" function, the employees a menu of plans provides for selection was in the delayed 33 states that small businesses were a used federally run SHOP marketplace in 2014 in these countries to limited offer a single plan by federally run SHOP Market.
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18 of the 32 states with 2015
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During the first open enrollment period a federally run SHOP market decided in 2015 from the feature "staff Pick", again to limit the health plan options for small businesses, online enrollment was delayed
small businesses the SHOP Market hoped they offer affordable health benefits that employees help value. But instead .:
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The competition is low in the SHOP Exchanges (ie in most states, there is little choice for employees, and little competition to reduce costs)
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premiums cost more in the SHOP market than on the individual health insurance market (ie the premium cost is still prohibitive for most small businesses).
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premium tax credits only in the individual exchanges.
Due to the key issues with the SHOP marketplace, and new opportunities in the individual health insurance market, many small businesses are passing the SHOP in favor of individual health insurance on. Since employers with less than 50 FTE employees subject to the employer mandate, most small businesses see the benefits of individual health insurance and allowing employees to choose their own health plan of the individual health insurance marketplace.
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