Calendar with push pin on 19 KFFestimates that in 2006, Deductible Relief Day fell on February 28.Just last year, the “holiday” came five days earlier, on May 14.(Photo: Shutterstock)

The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has declared May 19 “Deductible Relief Day,” as a way of bringingawareness to a growing issue with high-deductible health plans.Cost-shifting by employer-based plans, originally hailed as a wayto make consumers smarter shoppers for health services, have becomeproblematic as Americans on these plans report struggling withaffordability when it comes to accessing health care services.

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