Bush Health Savings Accounts Slow to Gain Acceptance
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So far employers and their workers have been slow to accept health savings accounts as an alternative to conventional health insurance.
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Jump in the expense of firm-based benefits on per-employee basis is lowest since 1999. By Jeff Swiatek. The cost of health care benefits slowed for a second consecutive year in 2004 in part because employees
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Health-care initiatives aimed at federal retirees and employees are under consideration in Congress and in the Bush administration.
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President Bush is not ruling out raising taxes on people who earn more than &#36;90,000 as a way to help fix Social Security's finances.
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One year after President Bush signed the new Medicare law, government officials and consumer advocates continue to be frustrated in their efforts to enroll low-income beneficiaries in the prescription drug discount card program.
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The Thrift Savings Plan hopes to get faster and better.
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President Bush, who has promised that his plan to allow private investment accounts in Social Security would give workers a &quot;better rate of
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A SOCIAL SECURITY PROPOSAL: The Bush administration is considering allowing younger workers to invest nearly &#36;2 of every &#36;3 from payroll taxes in private accounts, up to &#36;1,000 to &#36;1,300 annually.
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For the next four weeks, federal employees and retirees will select their health insurance coverage for 2007. Many will escape the sticker shock of past years, as federal officials say 63 percent of enrollees in the federal employee health insurance program will see no increase in their premiums...
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The Bush administration continues to have a hard time selling its plan to turn more federal work over to the private sector.
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Depending on whom you ask, the budget that President Bush proposed  last week will save or sink Medicare and Medicaid, two popular programs that, along with Social Security, threaten to swamp the federal budget as the baby-boom generation retires.
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While the Bush administration's words of support for a high-technology future for health care have been plentiful, the dollars, it seems, are scarce.
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President Bush is not giving up on his call to overhaul the tax code for those who buy health insurance. The president focused his attention again on the topic after a recent government report projected that health care spending would double by the year 2016. Analysts say current tax policy is contributing to the increase in spending through incentives that favor more comprehensive and expensive health benefits.
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The popularity of health savings accounts for the poor will be put to the test in Indiana under a program approved Friday by the Bush administration. Under the plan, someone making $20,000 a year could get health coverage for about $19 a week.
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The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed economic aid package.
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Democrats have made it clear: They don't support recommendations from President Bush that would shave an estimated $77 billion from government health programs for seniors and the poor. But Bush doesn't need lawmakers' support for some of the changes that he wants to make to Medicare and Medicaid. He could get about $23 billion in savings over the next five years by issuing new federal regulations.
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Jane Fumich and her team visit Cleveland's churches, public housing holiday parties and ward club meetings trying to give away the government's money &#151; without much success. A year after the Medicare overhaul became law, the Bush administration is struggling to get the poor signed up for a drug discount card that comes with &#36;1,200 in aid between now and 2006.