Hixme Blog White House Comes Through: Approves Personally Owned Portable Benefits for Large Employers

Referred to as "Cash For Coverage" this regulatory action implements the administration's 2017 Executive Order and may completely reinvent benefits for American workers. Over the last 50 years, precious few moments have triggered fundamental transformation in health care financing. But in each dramatic case, the common driver was substantial federal regulation or legislation. These monumental federal legislative actions reflect decades of increasingly frustrated expectations and outcomes among American lawmakers, regulators and the public. A new action published in the Federal Register this week sets into motion the implementation of another such driver of transformation - Executive Order #13813 "Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition [...]