title: Affordable defined contribution health plans can help employers get through challenging times.
abstract: Defined contribution health plans, modeled on defined contribution retirement plans, seem to be the wave of the future. At a time when employers and employees alike are trying to contain their health care costs, and employers fight to retain their workers, defined contribution health plans can provide solutions for both employers and employees. The health purchasing alliance model has met with success in both the small and mid-size market.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Word
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D003256:Community Participation / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D020407:Internet; D017146:Models, Organizational; D014481:United States