The company switched from a traditional health plan to a self-insured plan run by benefits-manager WellNet Inc. this year, in part because of the law's small-business rules, said Jack Lisicky, a founder.
The firm will move its 40 U.S.-based workers to a self-insured plan in June, in part to avoid the health law's risk-spreading provisions that could raise its costs, said CEO Randy Keith.
He won, the company won, and his 500 co-workers won, because they share 25% of the overall cost of Serigraph's self-insured plan.
Another option some small firms are considering is to switch to a self-funded plan, a riskier approach used by larger firms, in which employers pay their workers' medical costs as needed.
If you don't feel comfortable contributing a full 20% of your income to retirement and long- term savings, at least stash the maximum into your employer's retirement savings account, an IRA or self- employed retirement plan.
Have automatic payroll deductions (or deductions from your checking account) of at least 10% of your income made into a 401(k), 403(b), Roth, or traditional IRA, or self- employed retirement plan (SEP-IRA, SIMPLE IRA, solo 401(k)).
In the course of introducing the self-critique and revival plan, Reince Priebus, the national GOP chairman, noted that Republican Sen.
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Without a self-directed advance medical plan for a patient, relatives are often asked to step in and act on a loved one's behalf.
CoverTN, which began in 2006, is a health-insurance plan for those who are self-employed, or who work for small businesses that can't afford a traditional policy.
The shooter was assigned to a small Special Operations Forces detachment working on so-called village-stability operations, a plan to raise local self-defense forces to protect Afghan villagers from the Taliban, a military official said.
The Center for Retirement Research studied the costs that afflict a typical self-directed 401(k) plan.
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In 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a peace agreement outlining a plan for Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories.
The administration must rectify the plan's self-serving appearance.
One of those disputes is with the major construction contractor, a Chinese company called Metallurgical Corporation of China, another is with Clive Palmer, the self-made Australian millionaire with a plan to build a replica of Titanic, the unsinkable passenger liner that claimed 1502 lives when it sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.
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Even those who accept that Greece's problems are largely self-made are depressed by an austerity plan that seems to offer so little hope for the medium term, and will punish many hard-working and modestly paid ordinary Greeks.
Describing special envoy Richard Holbrooke's meeting with Milosevic, Clinton sounded pessimistic about the chance the Yugoslav leader would reverse course and accept the plan that would give self-rule to ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province and enforce it with NATO peacekeeping troops.
The NFL is four years away from its 50th Super Bowl, which means it is already trying to plan around a peculiar self-inflicted marketing nuisance: How can the world's most powerful sports league get around putting a big, fat "L" on hundreds of thousands of souvenir T-shirts?
Unlike a regular 401(k) plan, a solo 401(k) plan can be implemented only by self-employed individuals or small business owners who have no other full-time employees (an exception applies if your full-time employee is your spouse).
And, despite all their self-centered whining, most Americans will stomach The Crotty Plan just fine too.
Conservatives will like his strong performance in the debate, with its almost comic, self-mocking repetition of his 9-9-9 plan.
The fee hike is part of a plan not only to make athletics more self-supporting, but also to get sports to contribute back to the school.
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One of the smartest moves they can make (including the self-employed) is to start a 401(k) plan before December 31st.
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There are many features of the solo 401(k) plan that make it so appealing and popular among self-employed business owners.
Still, inside them the idea of self-imposed exile has risen in salience: from a bluff to a plan B.
Self-employed individuals are eligible to adopt a 401(k) qualified plan just like they would have at any large company or business with employees.
The company's plan to reinvigorate same-store sales by pushing harder into self-publishing--a recent trend that allows customers to come in and publish their own books on-site for sale in the local store--seems speculative at best.
Iraq's Kurds suspect that Turkey's real plan is to end their 17-year-old experiment with self-rule.
Thus, we could be heading toward a system where large corporations continue to self-insure while requiring their employees enroll in an ACO while everyone else is on a government plan that requires patient membership in an ACO.
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Those doing the work had to shift from being individuals reporting to bosses in accordance with a big plan to having the responsibility and accountability of delivering work as part of a self-organizing team and doing the work in short cycles without interruption from any manager.
Roll Over and Die Laughing IBM's momentous decision this month to wind down its traditional pension plan in favor of 401(k)s will no doubt accelerate the movement toward self-directed retirement savings.
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