Blair, We looked into this pretty hard for Cincinnati Coworks and asked a broker. What we concluded was that no insurer would offer major medical health insurance to a group unless it was a company (i.e. each group member pulled a W-2). Some insurers might insure a group of of consultants thru the consulting company, but the consulting company would need to present a certain number of 1099 hours each year or something like that.
We did find an insurance company (Colonial Life) that was willing to offer group rates for these newly popular "gap" insurance products (think AFLAC) such as accident, life insurance, and cancer insurance. But no disability and again no major medical. That said, based on informal polling, most of our members have some sort of private, high-deductible insurance with an HSA, and have been happy with that, even for families. YMMV, Gerard http://cincycoworks.com On Feb 3, 11:40 am, Angel Kwiatkowski <fccowork...@gmail.com> wrote: > The only way I've heard we could pull it off would be for my coworking > space to "employ" all of the members. I guess everyone could work a 1 > hour shift every month! > Angel > > On Feb 2, 4:57 pm, Blair Gordon <blairjamesgor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hence why he had never done it, just heard about it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
