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ACA open enrollment: what’s new for 2025
Open enrollment for 2025 ACA (Affordable Care Act)-compliant health insurance is just around the corner. Let’s take a look at the various changes that consumers should be aware of this fall.

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How does a health savings account (HSA) work?
A health savings account is a tax-advantaged savings account combined with a high-deductible health insurance policy to provide an investment and health coverage. Deposits to the HSA are tax-deductible and grow tax-free. Withdrawals are always tax-free if they're used for qualifying medical expenses, although they account can be used like a traditional IRA after age 65, with withdrawals subject to regular income tax.

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Louise Norris

Santa, please fix the ‘family glitch’ photo

Santa, please fix the ‘family glitch’

December 23, 2014 – There are somewhere between 2 and 4 million people who are impacted by the "family glitch" who are basically missing out on access to…

Hanukkah Harry, enrollment transparency, please photo

Hanukkah Harry, enrollment transparency, please

December 22, 2014 – So what I'd like from Hanukkah Harry this year ... or going forward ... would be I know that recently HealthCare.gov has finally started…

Santa, we need CSR subsidies for Bronze plans photo

Santa, we need CSR subsidies for Bronze plans

December 21, 2014 – For low-income people Bronze plans are very rarely appropriate because the out-of-pocket costs are likely to be so high. Cost-sharing…

Santa, please deliver single-payer healthcare photo

Santa, please deliver single-payer healthcare

December 21, 2014 – "I think that our first step – especially at this holiday season – is to ask for a change of heart … that ultimately, you have to…

Medicaid expansion for every state’s stocking? photo

Medicaid expansion for every state’s stocking?

December 20, 2014 – This is really a tragic situation where many, many low-income Americans are not eligible for financial help at all because they live in a…

Santa, help keep the ‘affordable’ in ACA photo

Santa, help keep the ‘affordable’ in ACA

December 20, 2014 – If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs it could mean that people buying insurance in 34 states – that's 4 1/2 million…

Santa, please deliver relief from high deductibles photo

Santa, please deliver relief from high deductibles

December 19, 2014 – What I'd like from Santa is for him to bring the American people some relief from the high deductibles that so many of us are having to…

Could Copper be ACA’s new precious metal? photo

Could Copper be ACA’s new precious metal?

November 19, 2014 – For some consumers, Copper plans could be just right. This is particularly true among healthy people who don't qualify for subsidies and…

Why exchange website users aren’t ‘bailing’ photo

Why exchange website users aren’t ‘bailing’

November 11, 2014 – We shouldn’t be surprised by the finding that half of the survey respondents aren’t planning to go back to the exchange during the 2015…

ACA critics play the ‘rating game’ but it isn’t working photo

ACA critics play the ‘rating game’ but it isn’t working

October 22, 2014 – Last spring, when it was obvious that Obamacare was meeting its enrollment targets for the first year, opponents of the law needed some new…

Exchanges: too big to succeed? photo

Exchanges: too big to succeed?

April 13, 2014 – This is the time for brainstorming, but how much are we willing to change? Could we revamp the whole process if it meant a more…

Flushing away $10,000 to ‘just say No’ photo

Flushing away $10,000 to ‘just say No’

March 27, 2014 – "The vast majority of our clients are thrilled to find out they qualify for subsidies. But to some people, the premium tax credits feel…