If you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period, you can get dental coverage with your new health plan. Note: You canât buy a dental plan from the Marketplace unless youâre enrolling in a Marketplace health plan at the same time. Note: Under the health care law, most people must have health coverage or pay a fee. Dental coverage is optional, even for children. So you don't need it to avoid the penalty. In the Health Insurance Marketplace, you can get dental coverage 2 ways: as part of a health plan, or by itself through a separate, stand-alone dental plan.
Typical benefits for a $50,000 salaried employee include life insurance, which cost $150, and health coverage, which cost $2,000 to $3,000 for single persons and $6,000 to $7,200 for families, says Joseph Hadzima, Jr., a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management.
by Lee Nichols, studioD. Employer expenses for benefits averaged $9.15 per hour in March 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While this amount is an average of all employers across the United States and may be more than you pay, paying the employer share of a benefit plan can still be quite expensive.