Expanding Health Savings Accounts Tops Large Employer Wish List

Expanded use of high deductible health plans and health savings accounts are the top recommendations that a group representing large employers has made to a House task force studying potential health-care policy changes.

In a letter sent Sunday to the House Budget Committee’s Health Care Task Force, the ERISA Industry Committee called for allowing workers who have tax-advantaged health savings accounts to use those HSAs to pay for work-site health clinics. The group, which advocates on behalf of large employer health and retirement plan sponsors, additionally sought direct primary care plans that are typically paid for by workers separately, and ...