Tag Archives: patient-as-customer

Keep pushing for HSAs & your ability to pay for your own medical care

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

From Ari Armstrong: Despite enactment of the Democratic health law, one reform Republicans and market advocates should fight to keep alive is the Health Savings Account (HSA), which allows people to put pre-tax money into an account dedicated to health-related … Continue reading →

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Land O’Lakes employees happy with consumer-directed insurance

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

The president and CEO of Land O’Lakes says: Offering consumer-driven health plans to Land O’Lakes employees is helping to keep health care costs in check, while maintaining or improving care quality. For Land O’Lakes, this approach supports our commitment to … Continue reading →

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Get a medical lab test w/o a doctor or insurance

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

With politicians trying to force everyone to pay for medical care through insurance, and pay for insurance through their employer, it’s nice to see a development where the patient can still be the customer.  A couple of weeks ago Scripps … Continue reading →

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Colorado ballot inititiative to block parts of Obama Care

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Update: Become a fan of this cause on the Defend Colorado from ObamaCare Facebook page. From the Denver Post: Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that … Continue reading →

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Free-markets: how to fix health care

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

From Reason.tv: Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal … Continue reading →

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Bizarro Health Care ‘Reform’: Expect Less, Pay More

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Pajamas Media was kind enough to publish my article about the Democrats’ “Bizarro” health care reform. Here’s the first few paragraphs: Expect less, pay more. It’s not the slogan for some “Bizarro World” Target store in a comic book; it’s … Continue reading →

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Health care without insurance, & know the price

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Linda Gorman

(Originally posted on John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog) Although Canadian health care is supposedly free, each year thousands of Canadians come to the United States instead. Many have spent so long waiting for care in Canada that they will pay … Continue reading →

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Paying for your own medical care

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

The success of HSA-qualified plans and evidence from the RAND health insurance experiment show how patients are prudent consumers of medical care when they spend their own money, rather than an insurance company. Ari Armstrong relates his personal experience in … Continue reading →

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