Monthly Archive: February 2008
Another Senator DeMint (R-SC) HSA Victory in the U.S. Senate
After months of work to stop, and slow, and ultimately improve the Indian Health Reauthorization bill, Senator DeMint (R-SC) has lead HSAs to yet another legislative victory. Senator DeMint (R-SC) conducted a negotiated withdrawal...
Indian Tribe Forbidden to Buy MRI Machine by Canadians
When Americans hear about politicians who want to increase the government’s role in our health care, everyone should understand what that means, and looking at the total level of government control in Canada is...
You’re Old and You Cost Too Much
Before the baby-boomers slam Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security like a run-away train — as in right now, today — 35 percent of the entire federal budget is spent on senior benefits, according to...
Universal Health Care Will Cause Rapid Growth in Health Savings Accounts
BearingPoint released projections showing that various Presidential candidates’ health plans, if enacted, will push the number of Health Savings Accounts past 2012 projections of 12 million HSAs and $200 billion in account deposits. There...
Who Said HSAs for the Medicaid Population Will Not Work?
Lots of people, mostly opponents to HSAs state with all sincerity and earnestness that HSAs will not work for the Medicaid population — mainly because, to paraphrase President Bush, of the bigotry of soft...
New Data: Medicare Spends $2,266 Less per Senior Without Medigap Coverage
The last post to this blog was about the 2003 data showing that those seniors without Medigap supplemental coverage cost Medicare $1,628 per yer less, than those seniors with Medigap supplemental coverage. More recent...