U.S. workers can carry over $500 of health spending accounts: Treasury

by Eriksen Insurance | Nov 1, 2013 | FSA, Insurance Reform

Yahoo News reports: “Americans who use flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for healthcare costs may now be able to carry up to $500 of expiring money into the next year, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday. For nearly 30 years, about 14 million families with FSAs...

Automatic Budget Cuts Will Reduce Medicare Payments To Doctors, Providers By $11 Billion

by Eriksen Insurance | Sep 20, 2012 | Medicare

Kaiser Health News reports: “Medicare providers would see reductions of about $11 billion beginning in January as part of series of automatic spending cuts set to begin next year unless Congress acts to halt them, according to estimates released Friday by the...

Gridlock in Washington, change everywhere else: 2011 in health policy

by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 28, 2011 | Heath Care Costs, Insurance Reform

The Washington Post, Wonkblog reports: “It was the most gridlocked of times, it was the least gridlocked of times. In one sense, nothing much happened in health care this year: Congress and the White House proposed ambitious Medicare reform packages, only to...

Poll: Most Oppose Cutting Funding for Health Care Reforms

by Eriksen Insurance | Mar 6, 2011 | Health Laws

CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto reports: A majority of the public disapproves of the Republican idea to cut off funding for health care reform, a new CBS News poll shows –...

Deficit Reduction Commission Reports to President

by Eriksen Insurance | Dec 9, 2010 | Health Laws, Insurance Reform

Image by Getty Images via @daylife NAIFA.org reports: “On December 1, the co-chairmen of the President’s Deficit Reduction Commission (DRC) released the commission’s plan for reducing the deficit by $4 trillion over the next five years. The plan calls for...