The policy option presented here was chosen to stimulate discussion, but is only one of several options examined by the author in the report “Medical Savings Accounts in Financing Healthcare.”
Presenter and author: Raisa B. Deber, University of Toronto
This is one in a series that puts forward tangible policy options for addressing the sustainability of Canada’s healthcare. The series presents possibilities and opportunities for improving efficiency and providing additional revenue.
On July 10, 2011, these options were presented to an international audience gathered in Toronto for the annual iHEA conference. They were selected by the presenters themselves, who are also authors of knowledge syntheses about healthcare financing that were commissioned by CHSRF (many other options are presented in their syntheses, which you will also find here).
This proposal: Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) are a family of models that combine a personal or household savings account with a high-deductible catastrophic insurance plan. MSAs represent an explicit rejection of risk-pooling across populations for the services they are intended to cover. They are often designed to encourage individuals to save early to defray anticipated expenditures later in life.
More at www.chsrf.ca
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Personal Finance: Getting a Higher Rate on My Savings – as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.
People nowadays are very concerned because interest rates are so low and everybody is always trying to find a way to get higher rate on their savings. Unfortunately, there is not a really good quick answer, however bankrate.com, which is b-a-n-k-r-a-t-e, does a very good job of offering a comparison, and it not only shows you some of the local savings accounts and who have some of the best rates, it also shows you some of the online savings accounts and banks, as well as showing you a comparison of the certificate of deposit.
So if you strictly need something for day to day expenses or things that can go wrong, you want to do a savings, if you do not need it for a while then you might look at using a certificate of deposit or even a short term bond mutual fund. But as far as a real good, you know, great place to look, that is, you know, websites are probably the best place to look.
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The Stench of Truth (256)a.mp4 The republican health reform plan just to show I don’t play favorites. Really it amounts to this; in their plan it counts as savings if you avoid care even if it’s necessary.
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Small business are turning to HSA accounts as the cost of health care insurance rises. This video explains what HSA are and how they work.
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A health savings account is the perfect companion to a high deductible health plan. Watch this short video to find out more about HSAs.
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Another Online Shopping Blitz Video!
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Health savings accounts- a market update, by Cora Tellez, President & CEO, Sterling HSA from the 2011 Consumerism Healthcare Web Summit
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Today, many insurance companies spend a substantial portion of consumers’ premium dollars on administrative costs and profits, including executive salaries, overhead, and marketing. Under the Affordable Care Act, consumers will receive more value for their premium dollar.
New medical loss ratio regulations require health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers’ premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality, rather than on administrative costs, starting in 2011. If they don’t, the insurance companies will be required to provide a rebate to their customers starting in 2012.
For more medical loss ratio resources: http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/medical_loss_ratio.html
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Health savings account – discussion with Ron Filice and Steve Arreola of eIndividualHealth.
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