tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 10

HSAs: HSAs May Foul Up Comprehensive Plans' Risk Pools

CMS expands coverage, but restricts it to certain facilities.The White House has been extolling health savings accounts since President Bush's State of the Union Address, calling them "an important step in restraining health care inflation." In contrast, opponents who dispute HSAs' benefits denounce them as a political diversion that could ultimately threaten comprehensive plans' viability by shifting more of the health care cost burden to consumers."The president's prescription for our ailing health care system is, astoundingly, to encourage the further deterioration of private insurance coverage for those in the middle class who have become increasingly worried...

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