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Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Rollover: More Imperative Now Than Ever

March, 5 2002
In an ongoing effort by the Bush administration to implement a rollover component for Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), the FY2003 budget includes $441 million for such a rollover beginning in 2004 and another $23 million for an expansion of options. FSA rollover, as the policy initiative is called, would give health care consumers more options and provide a cost-containment incentive for health care expenditures.

Six Questions Everyone Should Ask About Health System Reform: An Application of Basic Economics

February, 22 2002
This paper, written by American Medical Association Principal Economist Jesse Hixson, offers guidelines for achieving effective health system reform through free-market incentives.

Health Care: Avoiding the Achilles Heel of Tax Reform

February, 1 2002
Many of the problems that politicians have been wrestling with for at least 20 years can be minimized and even solved by empowering consumers to transform the health care sector through free-market competition rather than regulation.

Empowering Health Care Consumers Through Tax Reform

September, 1 1999

Grace-Marie Arnett, Ed.
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
September 1999

 

Uninsured Rates Rise Dramatically in States With Strictest Health Insurance Regulations

August, 14 1998
During the heated debate on health care reform several years ago, some states jumped ahead of the rest by aggressively regulating their health insurance markets to speed reform. The data are now in, and they show that these attempts have backfired by harming the very citizens they were designed to help.
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