{"id":1634,"date":"2008-12-15T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthnews.nchealthplans.com\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2010-06-23T21:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:09:56","slug":"bcbsnc-and-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2008\/12\/bcbsnc-and-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"BCBSNC and Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Small Businesses are a Big Priority<\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Ninety percent of North Carolina businesses are small businesses, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">making them the engine of North Carolina\u2019s economy and one of our <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">fastest-growing market segments.* <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">In 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina<\/a> provided group <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">coverage to 28,095 small business owners in the state.** The number of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">small business customers insured with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/compare_plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross and Blue Shield of<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/compare_plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina<\/a> has increased by 48.45 percent since 2002.*** We provide <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">coverage where small businesses need it \u2013 in small towns and cities all <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><!--more-->Working in North Carolina for<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina<\/a> employs nearly 4,500 people <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">right here in North Carolina. In 2007 alone,\u00a0they created nearly 300 jobs.* <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">These are stable jobs with good benefits, competitive pay and educational <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">opportunities. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">In fact, in 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/personalized_quote\/?app=Dental+Blue\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC<\/a> was named one of the 100 Best companies for <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">working mothers by the nationally-renowned Working Mother magazine for <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">its focus on life-work flexibility, its broad array of benefits and its programs <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">to support employees.\u00a0Their<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> growth continues to be solid, and we\u2019re among the top 100 employers <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">in the state.**<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina health insurance<\/a>, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\">www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> \u00a0or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our professional authorized agents. Our agency provides coverage for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/compare_plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance<\/a> in North Carolina through<a href=\"http:\/\/nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC<\/a>). You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health, call all our office for details.<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0*Source: BCBSNC internal records\u00a0as of 12\/31\/2007. Labor Market Information, Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, 2007.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Businesses are a Big Priority \u00a0 Ninety percent of North Carolina businesses are small businesses, making them the engine of North Carolina\u2019s economy and one of our fastest-growing market segments.* In 2007, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina provided group coverage to 28,095 small business owners in the state.** The number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23,152,371,196],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","tag-bcbsnc","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-nc","tag-employment","tag-small-businesses-in-nc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}