by Spencer Cadavero | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog
Rising healthcare prices have long been an issue for this country. This is largely due to both the third-party payer problem and a lack of price transparency. The lack of stated prices from providers makes it impossible for consumers to get the best price for any...
by Byron Schlomach | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which were enacted into federal law in 2003, are a key reform for the future of health care policy, as explained in a recent 1889 Institute paper. HSAs are personal savings accounts with significant income tax advantages. Deposits to an...
by Byron Schlomach | Feb 17, 2021 | Research
What States Can Do to Improve Health Savings Account Incentives Author Byron Schlomach Abstract This paper explains how HSA incentives (meant to battle the third-party payer problem) are undermined by insurance companies. It proposes actions states can take, including...
by Mike Davis | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
Why is it that when conservatives suffer a major loss, they give up, accept the new status quo, and fall back to the next retreat position? When progressives suffer a major loss, they regroup and try again. And again. Until they finally wheedle the American public...
by Byron Schlomach | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
So we vote next week on whether or not to expand Medicaid according to Obamacare’s provisions. A vote “Yes” on State Question 802 would expand Medicaid to able-bodied adults above the poverty line. A vote “No” would keep the status quo, with taxpayers buying health...
