cafeteria plan

Some insurers are offering exchanges themselves, with marketplaces looking more like an old-style cafeteria plan and limited to a single insurer but with a broader array of plans than an employer might typically offer.

Amazon’s cafeteria plan for picking partners gives the company greater control over the customer experience and its overall product strategy.

That’s because many health plans that offer employees the ability to pay for coverage on a pretax basis — under an arrangement known as a cafeteria plan — are governed by a section of the Internal Revenue Code, Mr. Solomon said.

The employees' lunchroom—conducted on the cafeteria plan—serves four thousand men and women each working day.

"I kind of have a cafeteria plan, where you take the things that work for you and discard the things that don't work," he said.