An employee unprepared for the financial impact of a large claim on a high-deductible health plan might be faced with a financial crisis even though he or she has a quality comprehensive health insurance plan in place.
Unless you are an actuary it is difficult to understand why we are seeing renewal increases on HSA-qualified small group health plans running at a similar clip as renewal increases for PPO co-pay plans. When HSAs were first rolled out, one of the
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