Consumer Driven Health Care

Insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. sees some parts of the health care overhaul as sound medicine and plans to keep them regardless of whether the law survives an upcoming Supreme Court ruling.

Enrollment in consumer-driven health plans is far outpacing other types of health coverage, according to new analysis from the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations. Large employers, specifically, are eager to offer these plans.

Scoffing at a White House veto threat, the House voted Thursday to repeal a tax on medical device makers that Republicans cast as a job-killing levy that would stifle an innovative industry.

Despite a White House veto threat, the House on Thursday approved legislation that would amend a 28-year-old rule requiring flexible spending account users to forfeit their unused balances. The bill also lifts restrictions on using FSAs and health savings accounts for over-the-counter drugs.

House Republicans may be heading toward a veto battle with President Obama over H.R. 436, a health package that includes the text of H.R. 1004 -- a bill that would kill the much-loathed requirement that flexible spending account (FSA) holders forfeit any unused FSA balances at the end of the...

House Republican leaders hope to pry Democratic senators away from the team defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by sending over three personal health account bills that have won the votes of a significant number of Democrats in the House.