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Aug 04 2014

Health Care Service Corporation released findings of a study which it says show that members who switched from traditional coverage to a high deductible plan had significant cost savings and used wellness and other health management tools more often.

http://www.benefitspro.com/2014/07/31/cdhp-analysis-shows-cost-savings
Jun 16 2014

Research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics uses a large disenrollment from Tennessee's low-income health care coverage program to study the effects of basically free public health insurance on job seeking and employment.  Losing access to free coverage results in people looking for and finding more jobs, largely those with health care coverage.  Getting free coverage means fewer people will work, a consequence the CBO projects in regard to the reform law.  While some idiots decry the terrible problem of people having to work at jobs they don't like to keep health care coverage, we prefer to be concerned about the poor working saps who have to pay exorbitant tax rates to pay for slackers' health care, while their own health care costs skyrocket.

http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/2/653.abstract
Jun 12 2014

An Aon Hewitt survey of employers finds that around 70% intend to adopt reference pricing and that a large number plan to use "gating" strategies in the future to give employees richer benefit designs, but only if they take certain actions to ensure cost-effective care and healthy behaviors.  Per person pricing, reduced dependent subsidies and more use of health cost transparency tools are also growing strategies.

http://aon.mediaroom.com/2014-06-11-Aon-Hewitt-Survey-Shows-U-S-Employers-Interested-in-Exploring-Stricter-Rules-Around-Health-Benefits-and-Reference-Based-Pricing-as-Part-of-their-Health-Strategy
Jun 12 2014

Accenture says that over 3 million persons are getting health benefits arranged through private insurance exchanges.

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20140612/NEWS03/140619909?tags=%7C307%7C74
Jun 10 2014

At least $75 billion in uncompensated care was rendered by providers in 2013, most by hospitals, and about 65% of that was offset by government payments, according to research in Health Affairs.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/5/807.abstract
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