{"id":16699,"date":"2020-08-21T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16699"},"modified":"2020-08-21T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:16:04","slug":"employees-are-using-hsas-as-spending-not-savings-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16699","title":{"rendered":"Employees are using HSAs as spending, not savings, vehicles,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employers are missing the opportunity to help their employees by positioning health savings accounts (HSAs) as saver only tools but the opportunity to help their employees meet a critical need: paying for health care costs today. According to a national health savings administrator, it found 65 percent of consumers report leveraging their HSA as a spending resource, with 23 percent stating they use their account equally for saving and spending. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plansponsor.com\/in-depth\/rethinking-hsas\/\">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>Employers are missing the opportunity to help their employees by positioning health savings accounts (HSAs) as saver only tools but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699","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=16699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16700,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions\/16700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}