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[rootofnewt]

Just out of curiousity...

is there anyone reading this who is a full-time employee of a company (or knows of a person who is) and, as such, received in their benefits package full health insurance coverage *without paying any premiums*? In other words, are there actually companies which pay employees' entire insurance premium costs?

I've never encountered this before and one person in a community is insisting that it's actually very widespread in the US, and common in fields like high tech (zir words, not mine).

So, educate me.

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[sheilamarie.livejournal.com]

Having sold group coverage, it does indeed happen. It happened more often when I first started working for my company then when I was laid off. For us it was usually a law office or some other such thing where they were raking in the money as opposed to the lil mom and pop shop down the street. There are two things to keep in mind, this was only for a portion of Florida and I never dealt with a group with more then 200 employees. The company I worked for didn't even pay all the premium, even for the HMO. Granted it was just 10 bucks for the HMO and 24 for the PPO. I'm on Greg's insurance (the insurance at my company SUCKS ASS) and my company gives me 50 bucks a month.