Early Users of Health Savings Accounts Say  So Far, So-So
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When Robert Payne, 61, needed back surgery last year, he said he wasn't worried about how to pay for it. Payne, a self-employed architect in Richmond, pulled $5,500 -- the amount of his health insurance deductible for such procedures -- from a savings account he uses exclusively for medical expenses. His insurance covered the rest.
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Britainâs buoyant borrow-and-spend era may be coming to an end, and there are accounts still to be settled.
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After years of double-digit cost increases, employers are seeing a significant slowing in the rate of growth in what they pay for employee health insurance.
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Investors shouldn't be writing off banks quite yet.
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A look at Healthways before the third-quarter earnings report.
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As long as you keep sending great savings ideas, I'll keep printing them. As part of its America Saves campaign, the Consumer Federation of America invited readers of this column to submit tips for building an emergency fund. (E-mail Nancy Register at nregister@consumerfed.org and send me a copy.) More than two months later, I'm still receiving a steady stream of ...
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Annual increases in health insurance premiums have slowed, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research Educational Trust survey, averaging 6.1 percent this year compared with 7.7 percent in 2006. These slower increases reflect several profitable years for the insurance industry,...
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When millions of American workers sign up for annual company benefits this fall, many will be given an option for a dramatically different kind of health care package known as a health savings account, or HSA.
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You can take money from an IRA to start a health savings account.
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While the array of 401(k) choices can at first seem daunting, many workers appear to be seeing one thing clearly: The value of lower expenses.
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Stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care is presented in a new study.
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An online bank's offer this week of 6 percent interest on money deposited in its savings accounts demonstrates how aggressive some banks have become in trying to bring in new deposits, benefiting consumers who are willing to shop around for a better place to save their money.
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People in a new kind of health plan that makes consumers pay for a bigger share of their care appear to be more cost-conscious than those in traditional plans, but half say they would switch if they had the chance, according to a survey released yesterday.
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President Bush stuck to generalities in his State of the Union message, but the White House this week provided some details of its plan to set up private accounts in the Social Security system. The administration didn't lay out a complete road map. It remains unclear, for example, how much traditional benefits will have to be cut or how the ...
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More thoughts on the ups and downs of this retirement-savings option.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The national hand-wringing over rapidly rising health-care costs generally ignores one point that at least some people find hard to miss: Many patients are getting much better results for their money than they did in the past.
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Every year, without fail, spending for services covered by private health insurance increases. Sometimes health care spending grows slowly, as it did in the mid-1990s during the managed-care boom.