July 23, 2009
Collaborating for Coverage
A region's Jewish groups band together to give their employees affordable health insurance
As executive director of Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun, a synagogue in River Hills, Wis., Bruce Ente provided health insurance for the organization's three employees. But four years ago, those premiums cost the synagogue, which ran on an annual budget of $1.3-million, about $11,000 each month — or, as Mr. Ente puts it, "enough to choke a horse."
It wasn't until a couple of years later that Mr. Ente learned of a new and more affordable option: the Wisconsin Jewish
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