Subscribe (Free) to
Daily or Weekly Newsletters
Post a Job

Featured Jobs

Defined Benefit Plan Consultant/Actuarial Analyst

Sentinel Group
(Remote / Everett MA)

Sentinel Group logo

Retirement Relationship Manager

MAP Retirement
(Remote)

MAP Retirement logo

Regional Vice President, Sales

MAP Retirement
(Remote)

MAP Retirement logo

Plan Administrator, Defined Benefit & Cash Balance

The Pension Source
(Remote / Stuart FL / NY / TX / Hybrid)

The Pension Source logo

Retirement Plan Administrator

Pattison Pension
(Albuquerque NM / Hybrid)

Pattison Pension logo

Plan Consultant - DB/CB

MAP Retirement
(Remote)

MAP Retirement logo

Retirement Plan Consultant

Sentinel Group
(Remote / Everett MA)

Sentinel Group logo

Temporary Document Specialist

BPAS
(Utica NY)

BPAS logo

Retirement Plan Consultant

MAP Retirement
(Remote)

MAP Retirement logo

Data Administrator II

DWC - The 401(k) Experts
(Remote)

DWC - The 401(k) Experts logo

Strategic Retirement Plan Consultant

Retirement Plan Consultants
(Urbandale IA / Des Moines IA)

Retirement Plan Consultants logo

View More Employee Benefits Jobs

Free Newsletters

“BenefitsLink continues to be the most valuable resource we have at the firm.”

-- An attorney subscriber

Mobile app icon
LinkedIn icon     Twitter icon     Facebook icon

Ten Things You May Not Know About Health Savings Accounts
John C. Goodman in Forbes; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
May 8, 2015

"In the beginning, HSAs received almost no industry support.... In the beginning, HSAs received almost no support from conservative think tanks.... In the beginning, HSAs received no support from academic health economists.... HSAs were originally a bipartisan idea.... One of the earliest adopters of an HSA-type plan was a labor union.... HSAs are one of the earliest examples of behavioral economics applied in the workplace.... The companies that have profited the most from HSAs have contributed almost nothing to their legislative creation, their public promotion and their political defense.... The HSA that works best with the Obamacare tax credits is a Roth HSA.... The HSA Design that economists like is the one everyone else hates.... President Obama could create 35 million more spend-it-or-save-it accounts by executive order."  MORE >>

Please click here to report this link if it is broken (for example, if you see a "404 File Not Found" error message after you click on the linked news item's title).
An important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® created this link to the news item, but we are not the news item's author (unless expressly shown above).