Experts divided over the impact of HSAs
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For some, they&#39;re an innovative and necessary reform for the ailing health care industry. For others, they&#39;re potentially ruinous for Americansâ health care coverage.
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As insurers, employers and average Americans grapple with skyrocketing health care bills, a study being published today has found that a small number of illnesses -- many of them preventable
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NEW YORK - Health care costs continued to surge this year as family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year of double-digit growth, according to a new study.    The cumulative effect of rising health care costs is taking a toll on workers: There are at least 5 million fewer jobs providing health insurance in 2004 than there were in 2001, according to the survey of 3,017 companies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust...
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The U.S. President has said that the problem with health care is the lawyers. He doesn't seem to think that there are any other problems we should be concerned about, and the free market is the best way to determine how much you would be willing to pay for health care. The President is pushing our current system, and his challenger is doing the same.
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Many people agree that America&#39;s health-care system needs fixing. Few agree on how to fix it. During last week&#39;s debate and in a flurry of political ads that will become more intense as the Nov.
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The debate over how to overhaul the nation's health-care system is underscoring a dramatic chasm between the two parties, as Democrats battle over which candidate will most quickly expand health insurance to cover all Americans while GOP contenders compete over who can best minimize the role of both...
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Economists are divided over whether the rise in prices will be short-lived.
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The coming split between one of the region's largest doctor groups and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is making some senior citizens nervous and has sparked a marketing battle between Harvard and rival Tufts Health Plan.
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Consumers face what many health care experts describe as two distinct tracks of care for those lucky enough to have insurance through their employer.
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Labor leader Mark Latham&#39;s plans for older Australians has received a mixed reaction from interest groups. At Labor&#39;s campaign launch yesterday, he promised to pay for the hospital costs of all Australians
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While health experts and the population at large tried to evaluate the full meaning of a referendum question about the privatization of health facilities, that process itself took a step forward last week.
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There are many other treatment options for people with arthritis, and physicians are considering them patient by patient. Washington -- Physicians are pulling out their risk-versus-benefit calculators once
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The fall can be an anxious time for employees, as companies hold their annual open enrollment periods and invite workers to choose benefits from a complex range of health insurance, disability coverage, and retirement savings alternatives.
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With the first ministers meeting in Ottawa, governments at last seem to be heading down the right track. For the first time in years, the tough questions about the true costs associated with specific health
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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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Experts called for universal health insurance in the United States, citing a study in Taiwan that showed it increased life expectancy and closed the gap between those who were most healthy and least healthy.
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Health savings accounts can help you reduce costs -- if you know how they work.