10 Million Americans Lost Employer Sponsored Dental Benefits in 2010
The Value Discount Plan, a viable solution for individuals who no longer having a traditional dental plan, hopes to capitalize on the recent NADP report that employee dental benefits declined 5.7% in 2010.
Chicago, Il (PRWEB) March 26, 2012
Employer sponsored dental benefit enrollment declined by 5.7% in 2010, according to the National Association of Dental Plans. It's the first drop in dental enrollment since 1994, the year NADP began tracking enrollment. The Value Dental Plan , which hopes to capitalize on the decline in employer sponsored dental insurance, is not traditional insurance but rather a program providing significant discounts to its members with over 50,000 participating dentists across the US.
The "2010 Dental Benefits Enrollment Report," issued by NADP and Delta Dental Plans Association, revealed that only 166 million Americans (54%) were covered by some form of dental benefit through group or individual plans in 2009.
Bacon, broccoli and the market of the individual mandate
It is entertaining when broccoli finds its way to SCOTUS.
When the Supreme Court addresses the individual mandate in terms of health care, to offer citizens health care savings via this individual mandate, it becomes cloudy in terms of why an individual mandate of this kind is okay, and why other mandates (as referenced in the transcript ) are somehow not okay.
Justice Scalia asked the now-pertinent “broccoli” question. The reasoning the appellants are using is about as absurd as eating broccoli to bend the cost curve of bacon. After all, the nuance here is that the healthy eating of said broccoli would offset the horrible health habits of those who eat delicious bacon, so we should mandate it, like mandatory policies of health insurance for everyone, except religious people, unions, corporations, etc.
So the bright line rule we see here is that there is some distinction between an individual mandate in the purchase of insurance, but not a distinction in the eating of broccoli, or the abstention of bacon consumption in the marketplace.
