Consumer Driven Health Care

To many, the phrase consumer-driven health care is another way of saying higher deductibles and co-pays. Make it more expensive to access medical care, the logic goes, and employees will think harder about whether that doctors visit is really necessary.

Times are tough, and over the last couple of years Americans have decided to forego health care expenses in lieu of basic expenses and the costs to economically survive.

Two years after economists say the Great Recession ended, the recovery has been the weakest and most lopsided of any since the 1930s.

When implementing workplace wellness programs, organizations have the right intentions; to offer a program that will help their employees live a healthier life and to limit medical costs to the organization. The problem is that too many organizations are sabotaging their own efforts without even knowing it. And it's no...

This week, I’ll be back in D.C. for meetings with various policy makers recommending fixes to this provision, as well as to the one that requires consumers to forfeit their unused FSA account balance at the end of the year.

When analysts attack, the case for and against HSAs and, oops!, a health reform loophole is discovered

Many brokers today remain skeptical that consumer-directed health plans will fulfill their promise. But they are missing the point: the connection between health and financial security is clear to employers and, increasingly, to their employees.

Some health care stocks remain volatile with the federal government considering a plan to cut spending and raise the nation's borrowing limit, according to a Jefferies analyst.