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What belongs in the core package and what becomes an add-on is a cost decision first Buy-up dental and vision options are priced per paycheck and rarely worth the top tier Dental and dependent coverage often follow the full-time line even where health coverage does not Three plan tiers sharing one network and differing on the deductible is a choice most staff cannot price Family coverage in a package costs roughly three times the employee-only rate Moving staff to a high-deductible plan saves the employer money and shifts the first two thousand dollars Flex credits hide the real cost of a package because nobody converts them back to dollars A narrow network keeps the employer premium down and drops the specialist someone was seeing The employer covers eighty percent of the premium and the tiers differ in what the other twenty buys Two carriers on the same employer menu can cover different hospitals in the same city