The HSA Coalition Blog
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Praises Hillary Clinton’s Health Plans
It is unclear to me if the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association was really trying to help Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign by praising her health care plan, or whether they were damning Hillary with...
Top Clinton Health Care Aide Talks About Lessons Learned From HillaryCare’s Failure
Spiritual Progessives Weigh in on Health Care Reform & Pound Dems John P. Geyman has written an article titled “Missing the Boat on Health Care?” for Tikkun, a website that creates a network for...
Brave New Diet, Brave New Drugs
Sally Pipes, in defense of freedom, has critically examined the Body Mass Index which is used to project the percentage of obese Americans, and therefore, create government policies to police our eating.Given that her...
NH Poll of Primary Voters Shows Bright Red & Blue Lines
The Boston Globe’s poll of likely voters in the January 8, 2008 Presidential Primary in New Hampshire shows bright blue and red lines between the Democratic and Republican voters: 80% of Democratic voters believe...
Hospital Lawyer Tells City Council Giving Charity Care is Irrelevant to Non-profit, Tax-Free Status
It takes a whole lot of courage to appear before the Pittsburgh City Council, as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center general counsel Robert Cindrich did, and tell them that the Medical Center’s tax-exempt, IRS-approved...
New Study Confirms HSA Gains in the Individual Insurance Market
AHIP’s new study of the individual insurance market shows the gains by HSAs among families who buy their own insurance, finding that HSAs have a 23 percent market share. Among single individuals, 10 percent...
Australia Mulls Healthcare Bank Accounts as a Tax Cut
How do you cut taxes, increase the national savings rate, and sock money away for an aging population’s growing health care needs? This idea was proposed in ON LINE Opinion today in Australia. [Note...
President Bush Explains His Vision for Health Care Reform
The following are excerpts from President Bush’s Speech yesterday in Fredericksburg, Virginia where he spoke at length about health care and the need for further reform. Significantly, President Bush talks about the lack of...