{"id":12603,"date":"2019-02-07T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12603"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:27:19","slug":"consumers-are-spending-hsas-on-everyday-doctor-visits-and-giving-little-thought-to-emergencies-and-long-term-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12603","title":{"rendered":"Consumers are spending HSAs on everyday doctor visits and giving little thought to emergencies and long-term savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Lively\u2019s Inc\u2019s annual HSA Spend Report, consumers are spending HSAs on everyday doctor visits and services and giving little thought to emergencies and long-term savings. Despite that fact that retirement health care costs are expected to hit $280,000 per couple, over and above Medicare coverage, dedicating any funds to long-term savings against health care expenses in retirement is apparently beyond people. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2019\/02\/06\/hsas-still-being-used-primarily-for-spending-not-saving\/?kw=HSAs%20still%20being%20used%20primarily%20for%20spending%2C%20not%20saving&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=enl&amp;utm_campaign=consumerdriven&amp;utm_content=20190207&amp;utm_term=bpro\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9837\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Lively\u2019s Inc\u2019s annual HSA Spend Report, consumers are spending HSAs on everyday doctor visits and services and giving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12604,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}