The HSA Healthcare Blog

Both House and Senate bills on so-called health care “reform” call for drastic cuts in Medicare spending.
“We’re going to have to reduce Medicare spending by about $400 billion over a 10-year period to get the math right,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said on ABC television’s “This Week” on Nov. 29. “We haven’t [...]

Over-utilization is the concept that too much of something is being used, or utilized. As it applies to health care, over-utilization is another one of (way too) many behind-the-scenes reasons why health care costs are so out of control.
A big reason for this is that current benefits rich plans do little if anything to [...]