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HSAs Seen As Latest Solution To Rising Health Costs
Submitted by Gloria Lau on 2.21.2006
As part of his State of the Union address, President Bush proposed boosting tax breaks for Americans who open Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs.
Majority of California State Workers Would Receive Greater Retirement Income Under a Defined Contribution Plan Compared with the Current Defined Benefit Plan
Submitted on 2.14.2006
SAN FRANCISCO – California state workers under age 50 who work for a period of 10, 15, or 20 years would potentially receive a higher retirement income if California switched from its current defined benefit (DB) plan to a defined contribution (DC) plan, according to a new study by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California.
Health savings accounts will benefit many
Submitted on 2.12.2006
The State of the Union Health Care Proposals
Submitted by Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. on 2.7.2006
Let us confront first the elephant in the living room: As long as people do not bear the full economic costs of their health care consumption decisions, the “crisis” in the American health care sector inexorably will get worse. This eternal truth flows from the simple reality that health care “needs” are infinite when people are allowed to demand all they want even as the world in which we live is one in which resources are limited, always and everywhere.
S.F. supe's health-care proposal not all bad medicine
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 2.3.2006
In health care, the problem of "the uninsured" has generated familiar cries for government intervention. San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano recently proposed a "Health Care Security Ordinance," that would force employers with as few as 20 employees to buy health insurance for them. Employers would have to pay as much as $345 per month into a Health Savings Account (HSA) for each employee who works more than 80 hours per month. HSAs are special accounts designed to give individuals more control over their health-care spending.
San Francisco Considers HSA Mandate
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 2.1.2006
San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano (D) introduced a revised "Health Care Security Ordinance" to the Finance Committee of the city's Board of Supervisors on February 1. Although an earlier version of the proposal was soundly rejected by the city's Small Business Commission last year, Ammiano hoped to garner enough support through changes to the bill.
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