Friday, June 17, 2005
WSJ: 4 million now enrolled in consumer driven health care plans
[Vanessa Fuhrmans, "Patients Give New Insurance Mixed Reviews," The Wall Street Journal, 14 June 2005.]
Buried in an article largely devoted to the "mixed reviews" of health savings accounts and other consumer-driven plans is a bigger story - their explosive growth:
While some form of consumer-driven health care has been around since the 1990s, it is only in the past couple of years that the approach has really taken off. Nearly four million Americans have some form of them now, with most of that growth coming in the past year since tax-free Health Savings Accounts were introduced in late 2003 as an option for the personal account portion of these plans.
[Devon Herrick, "Health Savings Accounts: The Future Of Health Care For Kansans," The Flint Hills Center, 14 February 2005.]
[Vanessa Fuhrmans, "Patients Give New Insurance Mixed Reviews," The Wall Street Journal, 14 June 2005.]
Buried in an article largely devoted to the "mixed reviews" of health savings accounts and other consumer-driven plans is a bigger story - their explosive growth:
While some form of consumer-driven health care has been around since the 1990s, it is only in the past couple of years that the approach has really taken off. Nearly four million Americans have some form of them now, with most of that growth coming in the past year since tax-free Health Savings Accounts were introduced in late 2003 as an option for the personal account portion of these plans.
[Devon Herrick, "Health Savings Accounts: The Future Of Health Care For Kansans," The Flint Hills Center, 14 February 2005.]
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