HSA plans gain popularity as healthcare prices rise
MarketWatchPosted: September 27th, 2007 by Steve Trinward
“About half of all employers are expected to soon offer Health Savings Account (HSA) plans to their employees. This projection offers the best hope for restraining runaway health care costs, according to John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). ‘The best way to control healthcare costs is to put patients in control of more of their health care dollars,” said Goodman. “The increasing popularity of HSAs is a result of managed care’s failure.’ According to a report released this week by Hewitt and Associates, a global human resources company, ‘account-based plans are gaining traction by employers as a way to control costs.’” (09/26/07)
