Editor’s Picks August 18, 2009
Innovating Toward Health Care Reform, the Whole Foods Way.
fasstcompany.com,
With the health-care debate bogged down in mindless town hall confrontations and the President reassuring us his plan for health care reform will work–just as soon as he creates it–where can Americans turn for innovative ideas in health care? (Read More)
How Health Savings Accounts Work.
blogs.harvardbusinesss.org, August 12, 2009
We believe that free market based plans like HSAs are our best chance to control medical costs. As medical costs become more transparent and providers become better equipped to give estimates, consumers will become more aware of and concerned with the true cost of medical procedures. Then providers will innovate and find ways to deliver services at lower costs. (Read More)
HSA Balances Show Upturn.
lifeandhealthinsurancenews.com,
Average individual and family health savings account balances increased in the first quarter for the first time since the second quarter of 2008, a survey finds. (Read More)
The Elimination of Consumer-Directed Health Plans is Real.
healthplaninnovation.com,
These HSA plans are in jeopardy of going away under the health reform legislation that has come out of three House committees and one Senate panel that have drafted the legislation as it stands today.
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