I have tried to figure out whether to drop the employer insurance I offer and let employees get their own. We have one employee who previously would have had problems getting private insurance, so we have kept our group plan out of a sense of social conscience. I cannot figure out what is available for how much, and what are the "catches". And of course our insurance agent, who stands to lose a commission, keeps filling us with horror stories. I am totally lost.


David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands