Fact Based List:
Ten Things I Bet You Don't Know About Health Savings Accounts
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 05/12/2015 - 10:41
- In the beginning, HSAs received almost no industry support
- In the beginning, HSAs received almost no support from conservative think tanks
- In the beginning, HSAs received no support from academic health economists
- HSAs were originally a bipartisan idea
- One of the earliest adopters of an HSA-type plan was a labor union
- HSAs are one of the earliest examples of behavioral economics applied in the workplace
- The companies that have profited the most from HSAs have contributed almost nothing to their legislative creation, their public promotion and their political defense
- The HSA that works best with the Obamacare tax credits is a Roth HSA
- The HSA Design that economists like is the one everyone else hates
- President Obama could create 35 million more spend-it-or-save-it accounts by executive order
Source: Forbes
Source URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2015/05/08/ten-thing...
List Ratings: |
Lists You Might Also Be Interested In
- Kelsey Brykman: 5 Ways for Payors to Adapt Value-Based Payment Models to the Pandemic Context
- 9 Recommendations To Reduce Readmissions Using EHR
- Five States with the Lowest Medicare Advantage Penetration
- PhRMA: Barriers and Burdens Standing Between Patients and Care, 4 Takeaways
- U.S. News & World Report: Top 5 Hospitals in Massachusetts
Login or register to post comments