{"id":17023,"date":"2019-09-16T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/cost-cutters\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:14:00","slug":"cost-cutters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/cost-cutters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost Cutters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancenews.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/InnMagazine\/cost-cutters-starter.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\nDavid Contorno wants employers to imagine they are buying a car instead of buying health insurance for their workers. He describes it this way: \u201cImagine you go to buy a new car and your budget is $300 per month,\u201d Contorno said. \u201cBut the salesman is so good that they wind up getting you into a $1,000-a-month car payment. And on top of that, you discover the car is really low quality. Do you think that switching your car insurance carrier would be a good strategy at that point? But what happens if you get yourself into a better car that costs less money to maintain? Don\u2019t you then lower the cost of your car insurance, too?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nContorno\u2019s point is to look at the health part of health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cYou can\u2019t fix health care through insurance,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you can fix insurance by fixing health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nContorno is the founder of E Powered Benefits in Mooresville, N.C., and wants to help health insurance brokers save their employer clients money on health insurance by cutting the cost of their workers\u2019 health care.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/insurancenewsnetmagazine.com\/article\/cost-cutters-3735\">Read the original article at InsuranceNewsNetMagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Contorno wants employers to imagine they are buying a car instead of buying health insurance for their workers. He describes it this way: \u201cImagine you go to buy a new car and your&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}