HSA Benefits Consulting

With Medicare about to go bankrupt due to unfunded liabilities, shouldn’t we be focusing our attention to health care reform for Medicare. Listen to Jim Frogue, the author of Stop Paying the Crooks.

We agree with his proposals for what health reform should include. See his last paragraph.

Dear Mrs. Gossage:

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me on health care reform. There is no better guide to making tough decisions than hearing from those whom I serve.

Recent proposals to reform health care are disturbing. Government bureaucracies have no place in determining the health care plans available to the American people. Health care decisions should be made by patients and doctors, and I will do everything I can to maintain this relationship. As we have seen in other countries, a government-run system does not improve access to health care and leads to patients waiting months for treatment, and even traveling to other countries to receive care.
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Here is my response to the comments posted about the article “Personal HSA Plans May Yet Survive” by David Nicklaus on the St. Louis Dispatch website.

We should clarify the difference between health care and health insurance. There was a time when people bought the services of a physician directly. Health insurance (then called hospitalization) was bought cheaply on the market to only cover catastrophic claims. Read the rest of this entry »

Joe Antos of AEI and Grace Marie Turner of Galen Institute have a piece in the Wall Street Journal listing the top 10 reasons why Medicare should not be a model for health reform, starting with the fact that Medicare is going bankrupt. They conclude: Before we give the federal government authority over health coverage for tens of millions more Americans, shouldn’t the government prove it can do a better job with the “public plan” we already have?

The St. Louis Dispatch online has a fact check article about President Obama’s speech to Congress. See the additional facts that I offered in my comment that they posted at the end of the article.

A short interview worth reading.

If you’ve never been to a “tax tea party” or a “freedom rally,” this video will give you a taste. These folks are worried Americans who come together to voice their concerns.

Beverly Gossage speaks to the crowd at KC Freedom Fest 2009.

Beautiful weather and great crowd for Freedom Fest 2009 on Saturday. I met down-to-earth Kansans and Missourians who are all concerned about the growing national debt and government control of health insurance. I was honored to be asked to speak. One attendee posted pictures and amusing commentary here. http://www.medary.com/article.php/2009090516041189 Michael Cannon of Cato Institute was right on target with his cautions about the pending health care bills. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrIDGpZDT4w