The Rise of Health Care Sharing Ministries

Earlier this year, insurance regulators from both Texas and Washington state filed orders against Aliera Healthcare, a health care sharing ministry (HCSM), after some of its members filed complaints about denied or delayed payments on their medical claims.

At first glance, this m...

Nursing home costs in the U.S. are rising even faster than health care

Nursing home costs can cost upwards of $100,000 a year, a heavy financial burden even for Americans who have set money aside for their later years -- and a crushing one for those who haven't. And those costs are rising, even outstripping the rising cost of health care in the U.S....

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As of 2020, Workers Can Use Individual Coverage HRAs to Purchase Their Own Plans

New Final Rule Lets Employees Use HRAs to Buy Health Insurance

On June 13, the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury issued a final rule allowing employers of all sizes that do not offer a group coverage plan to fund a new kind of health reimbursem...

Even with a good job and insurance — high health care costs still drove me to bankruptcy

They assume that if they have insurance, they are immune from the health care debate. In reality, many of us are just one major illness away from financial devastation. I know, I've been there.