{"id":15448,"date":"2020-03-13T07:26:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15448"},"modified":"2020-03-13T07:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:26:06","slug":"the-lower-health-insurance-deductibles-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15448","title":{"rendered":"The Lower Health Insurance Deductibles Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Rick Scott and Kyrsten Sinema introduced the Lower Health Insurance Deductibles Act (S.3439); the bill would grant insurance companies the ability to split the deductible of a HSA eligible High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) between drug and medical benefits giving consumers with chronic conditions more flexibility to meet their deductible. Currently, HSA eligible HDHP must have a minimum medical deductible of $1,400. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/sens-scott-and-sinema-introduce-bill-to-lower-health-insurance-deductibles-for-american-families#.XmtpsG5Fzug\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14819\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Rick Scott and Kyrsten Sinema introduced the Lower Health Insurance Deductibles Act (S.3439); the bill would grant insurance companies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-redesign","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448","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=15448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15449,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions\/15449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}