An HSA Guy Reflects on Mandates

While a Man Date may be something quite appealing to some of my divorced girl friends and maybe to a few friends who are guys; generally they are something that leave quite bitter taste in my mouth.  While you may not be that familiar with mandates in the context of healthcare, if you are following the healthcare debate [...]

Y’all Enjoy Y’alls Health Savings Account.

I had the opportunity this weekend to spend two incredible days in Savannah, Georgia.  We rolled in Friday night after an uneventful drive from Atlanta.  When we checked into our hotel, we asked for a room facing the river and when the woman at check-in handed us the room key she said, “y’all enjoy y’allself. [...]

Health Savings Accounts and Baby’s Dentista

My daughter did not come home from the dentist last week and say, “look Mom, no cavities.”  She may have “whiter teeth and fresher breathe,”  but she also has two cavities, a couple of wisdom teeth, two cracked seals and a baby tooth that’s got the permanent tooth underneath it growing sideways.
The good news is [...]

Health Savings Account Heresay – A Note To Congress

For the past couple of years I’ve heard the Democrats don’t like Health Savings Accounts because they feel like Republicans and the Bush Administration crammed HSAs down their throats.  Now I don’t know any of our nation’s Senators or Representatives, but I do know what it is like in business to have things crammed down one’s throat.  It [...]

Looking For Creative Ways To Fund Your Health Savings Account (HSA)?

 
There’s a new program called My HSA Rewards that helps you save toward you HSA on purchases that you make every day.  Worth taking a look at.  It is a bit more civil than the self inflicted hair cuts / hair experiments I have been conducting on my head for the past year (but I have [...]

Brother Can you Drop Another $1000 Into Your HSA?

So my brother-in-law is a small businessman who purchases his health insurance on the individual market.  Subsequently, for the past two years he has purchased a high deductible health plan (HDHP) for his family that qualifies for a health savings account.
He is a diligent saver and this year put $400 a month into his HSA.  That is just kick butt [...]

Horror or Humor? Maybe Laughter is the Best Healthcare Policy.

 
Maybe the fact that we keep seeing President Obama laughing while discussing otherwise painful topics, is his mind and body doing all it can to keep from dropping over dead from stress.
Maybe we will look back in history books some day and learn how President Obama’s greatest healthcare policy was his humor policy.  But this post is not [...]

When It Comes To Healthcare, What Exactly is “Skin In The Game?” – What is an HSA

 
In a post last week I raised this idea that virtually every citizen in this country, with very few exceptions should have some “skin in the game” when it comes to their healthcare.  And if you read that post, hopefully you asked yourself, “what is this guy talking about?”    If you didn’t read it, please feel [...]

Let’s Face It, Individual Healthcare In The U.S. Is Not A Priority

 
Or is it? 
It struck me this morning that lack of discipline and education may be significant contributors to people’s unwillingness to take care of themselves from a health and an insurance perspective .  We all know people (heck, I was one of them) who only see the co-pay when it comes to their healthcare.  As [...]

What is the one thing Congress, the President and the Big Lebowski have in common?

 
Gutterballs….
Stimulus, healthcare, political appointmnets, bailouts, energy, education, the economy, you name it; it is totally surreal.  I look at these guys and gals on TV and all I see is “The Dude.”
But the thing is, if I want to see The Dude, I can rent the movie.  Blockbuster or NetFlix would be happy to let me [...]