In high-income cities recently there were billboards filled with young, attractive, smiling people. The caption read “Drink with friends,” explaining if you drink & drive, ask a friend to go with you to help steer, watch for oncoming traffic and tell you when you’re swerving out of your lane. If that sounds utterly ridiculous that’s because it is. Except, drinking wasn’t the topic of the billboards, fentanyl use was.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Monday Links
- IRA Medicare Part D reforms explained. There is a huge reduction in the government’s contribution to the program that Republicans never talked about.
- Alex and Tyler discuss efficient gift giving.
- A different view of gift giving.
- 6 in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease.
- Milei is taking his “chain saw” to Argentinian government programs. On the chopping block: the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity.
Report: Self-Insured Employer Plan Prices Not as Low as Insurers
Nearly 100 million people have health coverage through self-insured employer plans. Self-insured health plans are arrangements where large employers take on the risk of their employees’ medical costs rather than purchasing coverage through an insurer. One advantage of self-insurance is that self-insured plans are regulated by the federal government, rather than states laws. In addition, some employers may have healthy workers and can assume the risk of employee health needs cheaper than insuring them.