That is true. But employers don't deduct health insurance premiums from your paycheck until you are eligible for the benefits!
Someone new at this could assume that they would be on immediately and begin to subtract their share from their paychecks. If they did not have a contract with ANY insurer, however, then this goes well beyond incompetence...
I would think that they would have hired someone with benefit administration experience, not some rookie off the street.
Total agreement here. This sounds like a very shaky enterprise. In fact, it shows how important business experience is, even though folks of the Dem persuasion seem to hate anything smacking of business, profit ... unless it affects them.