Ministry & Professional Leadership

UUA Health Plan

A Plan Built on Partnership

UUA Health Plan
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Joining in mutual responsibility will strengthen our liberal religious movement as we help lift each others burdens.

Congregations can more easily take responsibility for a viable health insurance program for their eligible staff. This will assure local churches access to a larger pool of capable staff, since receiving insurance as a benefit is one of the major factors considered by potential employees.

Congregations and staff will join in sharing the premium costs. Congregations or other employer-organizations are urged to pay at least 80 percent of the premium for employees and at least 50% of the premium for additional family members.

By creating a larger pool of insured persons, congregations will share in reduced risks of financial exposure. Since enrolled staff have a stake in the costs, they will have an incentive to make reasonable choices in using health care services.

Many congregations banding together can bargain for discounts and help each other by sharing risks and costs. For most, premiums will be lower under our UUA non-profit plan than under a commercial retail one.

By taking responsibility for the creation of a self-funded plan, the UUA is lifting excessive burdens of cost and administration from congregations.

Most major denominations have already created plans by which churches and synagogues assist each other in providing health insurance for their employees, thus enabling a national insurance program that no single congregation could purchase individually.

For further information: please contact Jim Sargent, UUA Health Plan Communications Coordinator, UUA, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 - Telephone 617-948-6405 or email healthinsurance@uua.org Email Link.

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