"BAR" wrote in message
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My wife's former company, a federally chartered communications
corporation, was self insured. They did hire a management company to
administer the health "plan".

I worked briefly for a fairly large company here in MA that offered
self-insured plans. They also had a professional health management company
that managed it.

I opted for the Major Medical plan. It was reasonably inexpensive, we were
covered for any serious problems and the deductable was $2000 per year. Of
course, we had to pay for routine doctor visits for non-catastrophic issues
(up to the deductable).

It happened to turn out that Mrs.E. had a bout with breast cancer during my
employ at this company. All the tests, surgery and six months of chemo were
covered, along with almost weekly doctor visits. Our cost: $2000.

Eisboch