Washington State Lawmakers can Avoid Tax Increases on Businesses and Households that cannot Afford Them without Making Devastating Cuts to Important Services Yet Save $1.1 Billion by Changing the Way it Administers State Employee Health Benefits
Washington State's 2.6 billion dollar budget deficit can be reduced by 42%.
Contact: Jeff Cunio, Clarion Care, 800-590-4110 ext104, media@clarioncare.com
SEATTLE, Feb. 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- As Washington state government considers difficult tax increases and searches for ways to cut spending, Clarion Care, an innovative software company, has developed a software solution that can reduce the deficit 42%.
The healthcare technology firm recently released patent-pending solutions that drastically reduce the administrative and premium costs associated with typical benefits plans. Clarion Care CEO Jeff Cunio explains, "Washington State is one of many employers suffering under the weight of an antiquated benefit and health delivery system that grows in cost faster than the rate of inflation while shrinking the level of services offered. Every year Employers pay more for Employees to receive less."
Clarion Care solves this by enabling Employers to contribute to Employee Directed Accounts (EDA's). Cunio explains, "Using Clarion Care, Employers can nearly eliminate the untold hours and dollars spent with meetings, negotiations, administration, regulation, and management of benefits that cost time, money, and opportunity. They can do this without leaving employees without benefits. Employees receive access to a personal EDA. Using their EDA empowers them to make private health decisions, including coverage and care options that are best for them and/or their family, using the contributions made by the Employer. This creates a tangible incentive to shop and price-compare for their health services which can have an incredibly positive impact on prices, and the EDA is in the Employees name -- not the name of the Employer -- so it is portable, creating an opportunity to build real health care security and savings for the Employee."
Using Clarion Care will save time and money for employers and employees but in the case of Washington State the savings goes beyond the reduction of the budget deficit by $1.1 billion dollars. Businesses, Consumers, and the Washington State economy could avoid the potentially damaging effect that tax increases would likely have on jobs and growth, and the legislature could avoid making cuts to programs that benefit the most vulnerable. These are much better outcomes and a much better solution than continuing to pay more for less!
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