During the open enrollment season for employee benefits, now under way for next year, you are likely to hear a whole lot about Consumer-Directed Health Plans.
You, of course, are the consumer. And you’re being directed to save your employer a lot of money — so much so that many employers are offering workers lucrative incentives to make the switch into a consumer-directed plan.
Should you bite? And if you don’t have a choice — General Electric, for example, is forcing 75,000 of its salaried employees in the United States to choose one of three consumer-driven options — how can you best navigate this new landscape?
via Patient Money – Making Sense of High-Deductible Health Plans – NYTimes.com.
Well, I can’t make sense of this yet. But I simply love your banner. Looks so magical and mystical!
Brenda
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I like the banner, too!
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The health insurance landscape is going to change drastically when and if congress passes ANY reform. Changing health insurance is THE KEY to any meaningful reform.
In this article, “consumer-driven” plans would make people much more careful with how they spent their money, and charges for healthcare goods and services would probably go down because people would be less willing to pay large amounts. Those aren’t bad things.
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