View Grace-Marie's presentation from the Association of Private Enterprise Education's 31st Annual Conference. Click here to view the presentation. … [Read more...] about Consumer Directed Health Care: Is It the Answer?
HSAs: An Affordable New Option for Businesses
A new survey shows that small businesses, many of which were giving up on providing health insurance to their workers, are finding new options with Health Savings Accounts. A survey by America's Health Insurance Plans found that 27 percent of small businesses that have purchased HSA-qualifying insurance didn't previously offer insurance to their employees. Other studies show that … [Read more...] about HSAs: An Affordable New Option for Businesses
Consumer Directed Health Care: Is It the Answer?
View Grace-Marie's presentation from the Association of Private Enterprise Education's 31st Annual Conference. Click here to view the presentation. … [Read more...] about Consumer Directed Health Care: Is It the Answer?
Conflicting Studies
An article from the current New England Journal of Medicine is zipping around our e-mails this week, written by a prominent Harvard professor and physician, Jerry Avorn. The title says it all: "Part 'D' for 'defective' - The Medicare drug-benefit chaos." Avorn uses the past tense to describe the benefit, using terms like "debacle" and "inept" and says, "The drug benefit was defective from its … [Read more...] about Conflicting Studies
Health Advisors
As we move toward a health care system that gives people more power and control over health care decisions, many experts worry that consumers will be bewildered by so many complex financial and medical issues. Some argue against consumer-directed health care because they don't believe that people can or should be left to make these difficult decisions. But that doesn't mean turning our back on … [Read more...] about Health Advisors
Choice in drug plans working for seniors
Opponents of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit often claim that "the dizzying array of choices is overloading beneficiaries and discouraging them from signing up" ("Changes in drug benefit weighed," March 15). But choice is exactly what is giving some seniors a better deal than anyone anticipated when Congress drafted the drug benefit. The private plans … [Read more...] about Choice in drug plans working for seniors
Choice in drug plans working for seniors
Opponents of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit often claim that "the dizzying array of choices is overloading beneficiaries and discouraging them from signing up" ("Changes in drug benefit weighed," March 15). But choice is exactly what is giving some seniors a better deal than anyone anticipated when Congress drafted the drug benefit. The private plans … [Read more...] about Choice in drug plans working for seniors
Advancing the Conversation
There is a flurry of news this week in the evolving conversation over health policy: The Medicaid Commission held another in our series of meetings, this time in Atlanta, to focus on long-term care. The presentations from the three-day hearing will be available on the commission's new website soon. But first, we heard from Medicaid Director Dennis Smith who gave us a detailed look at the changes … [Read more...] about Advancing the Conversation