{"id":16318,"date":"2020-06-24T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16318"},"modified":"2020-06-24T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:22:50","slug":"majority-of-americans-have-no-knowledge-what-a-health-savings-account-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16318","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Americans have no knowledge what a Health Savings Account is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of health plan sponsors say education about health savings accounts (HSAs) is a pressing need. \u00a0Only 50 percent of Americans have any knowledge about HSAs and 40 percent believe HSA funds are lost if not spent by the end of the year.\u00a0 The important distinction between Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) is the employee is in possession of their money, \u00a0can watch their balances build over time and HSA stays with them for life, whereas FSA is a notional account.\u00a0 Read article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2020\/06\/23\/using-hsas-to-cope-with-health-and-financial-crises\/\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8394\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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>The majority of health plan sponsors say education about health savings accounts (HSAs) is a pressing need. \u00a0Only 50 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318","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=16318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16322,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions\/16322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}