The HSA Healthcare Blog

In a recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal hits the highlights of why allowing Uncle Sam to become Dr. Sam is an inherently flawed concept.
As the Journal recognizes, a new Gov’t plan would become yet another middle-class entitlement (as if we don’t have enough already).
So what’s wrong with entitlements?
Nothing.
It’s just that somebody has [...]

The ever increasing costs make the current system unsustainable, by any measure.

Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, Karen M. Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group, said that insurers were willing to stop charging females higher premiums than males.
It was the latest concession by insurers as Congress drafts legislation to overhaul the $2.5 trillion health care industry.
In November, insurers said they would accept [...]