CDHC Solutions Newsletter

ObamaCare OTC: A Prescription for Confusion
by Ron Bachman,FSA, MAAA, president & CEO of Healthcare Visions
ObamaCare restrictions on the use of over-the-counter (OTC) medications will begin on January 1, 2011. In the upside-down world of ObamaCare the new OTC law makes the convenient inconvenient, takes cost effective treatments and increases costs, changes tax advantages to tax penalties, and goes from choice to limitations. (more)

GAO Report - "Consumer Directed Health Plans" Numbers Mean Nothing
by Greg Scandlen, The Heartland Institute
The GAO has released a report recently. This one is better than the EBRI report. It includes a literature review of 31 other studies, including most of the vendor reports I have used in the past. (more)

Health Reform Navigator Aids in Dealing With Health Care Reform
by Todd Callahan, online content manager, FieldMedia LLC
It's a pretty good bet your benefits manager has not thoroughly read through the entire 2,700 pages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (more)

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What is known about Consumer Driven Health Plans

WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) today published a detailed summary of what is known about consumer-driven health plans, a relatively new option for paying for medical expenses that first began to appear nearly a decade ago

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NCPA Proposes Criteria for Grandfathered Health Plans, Pharmacy Benefits
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 17, 2010) - The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) submitted comments to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA), and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Consumer Information. (more)

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