{"id":7383,"date":"2017-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/why-leaping-to-save-on-benefits-premiums-may-actually-cost-you\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T06:00:00","slug":"why-leaping-to-save-on-benefits-premiums-may-actually-cost-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/hr\/why-leaping-to-save-on-benefits-premiums-may-actually-cost-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Why leaping to save on benefits premiums may actually cost you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managing costs is a cornerstone of a good benefits plan strategy. But jumping to the lowest cost benefit plan doesn&#8217;t always make sense in the long run.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/why-leaping-to-save-on-benefits-premiums-may-actually-cost-you-107710\">Why leaping to save on benefits premiums may cost employers<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>It seems to happen a lot. Seemingly daily, someone will say they can save a plan sponsor money on its group benefits plan. My not-so-subtle reply is usually, &#8220;Another great deal, eh?&#8221; &#8220;Based on what?&#8221; I then ask. I always know the answer because saving on premiums is the easiest way to get someone&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing costs is a cornerstone of a good benefits plan strategy. But jumping to the lowest cost benefit plan doesn&#8217;t always make sense in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/changesaheadsign.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[129,41],"class_list":{"0":"post-7383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"tag-benefits","9":"tag-small_business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}