Last week, the White House finalized a rule that allows employers to fund health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) that can be used by workers to buy their own coverage on the individual market. This subtle, technical tweak has the potential to …
Category: Employee Benefits
Trump’s new rule will give businesses and workers better health care options – CNN
A HUGE WIN FOR THE LABOR MARKET AND A STEP TOWARDS ENDING JOB-LOCK! This is one of the most positive and substantive changes in healthcare policy to come out of Washington, D.C. in the past 40 years. It finally pierces …
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The Urban Myth of PPOs | LinkedIn
“Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) A type of health plan that contracts with medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, to create a network of participating providers. You pay less if you use providers that belong to the plan’s network.” Oh …
Analysis of the ACA: A Public Policy “Devil in the Details”
Individual Health Shrinkage Drives Up Uninsured Rate: CBO Data ~Enrollment in every other major type of coverage grew or held steady~ The subtitle in the article above is correct: Enrollment in every other major type of coverage grew or held …
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Annual Conference | Free Market Medical Association
Forum for Healthcare Freedom is proud to be a Mobile App & WiFi Sponsor for the 2019 Free Market Medical Association annual conference, to be held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Dallas, TX. Since 2014, the mission of the …
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Judge strikes down association health plan rule as ACA runaround
New York state and the special interests who want to maintain the ACA-dependent grip on the market are at it again. Using a similarly contorted legal and regulatory logic that went into the design and subsequent SCOTUS justification for the …
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No Free Lunch…Except in Pharma – PBGH
Great article by Pittsburgh Business Group on Health that explains the PBM rebate scam. “The Problem… Above board discounts and rebates would not cause problems. Let’s say your friend had a coupon for $10 off when you bought two entrees. …
Lies That Won’t Die: Health Insurance Costs and Healthcare – Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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