Click to Print  Can I pick and choose which employees I offer
health insurance to?  We're a small business with fewer than 10
employees, and we're interested in attracting some new, higher-
paid talent. I realize to do so we have to offer health
benefits, but we don't want to have to offer the same health
benefits to the lower-paid employees. I need to know what we are
and aren't allowed to do so that we can use a good health plan
to attract the highly skilled employees, but not have to spend
the extra expense on our lower paid employees. Penny Morey
answered May 29, 2008 It's not illegal to offer health benefits
to just the top echelon of your company, but it may be difficult
to find a broker/carrier who wants your business. That is, with
fewer than 10 employees to begin with, to seek health insurance
for only a very few will not make you a particularly attractive
client for most health insurance brokers/carriers; and it will
probably be pretty expensive for you, too.  Also, insurance
brokers/carriers like to