Consumer Driven Health Care

In finalizing its payment policies, CMS has bumped up payments to Medicare Advantage plans to 3.3% in 2024, slightly above the 1% raise that it proposed.

That question was debated at a Senate Finance Committee, and there was a bipartisan consensus to make the drug dispensing process fairer so that people aren't "mugged at the pharmacy counter," as one Senator put it.

The National Federation of Small Business is urging Congress to expand access to HSAs and HRAs and expand tax credits to small businesses in order to level the playing field between large and small employers.

These latest agreements, and their unfair attempts to restrict a person's future free speech rights, are in a different category entirely.

About 60% of the 173 million people enrolled in private health coverage used at least one of the Affordable Care Act's no-cost preventive services in 2018.

Major insurers are taking steps to eliminate, streamline and automate some of the paperwork required for patients to get many medical tests and procedures, before the proposed CMS rule is finalized.