This is something I think tech professionals should be able to ameliorate. You can do 'group health' (like AARP does) with a group membership organization. Is there not anything like that available from at least the IEEE or the ACM?
That's more of a marketing partnership, unfortunately not a proper group plan. I looked at it a few years ago, and it was missing the one key part of a proper group plan: mandatory coverage. If you work for Google, you are automatically covered by Google's group-plan health insurance; the insurer does not approve or reject specific employees. Whereas with ACM's partnership, being an ACM member is no guarantee of coverage. You have to submit an application, and the insurer can turn you down (or at least could, a few years ago).
