“Over the next decade, we are likely to see a shift in health insurance in the U.S.: So-called defined-contribution plans will gradually take over the market, shifting the residual risk of incurring high health-care costs from employers to workers.”
“The market today is dominated by ‘defined-benefit’ plans, under which companies determine a set of health-insurance benefits that are provided for employees. These will gradually be replaced by defined-contribution plans, under which companies pay a fixed amount, and employees use the money to buy or help pay for insurance they choose themselves.”
We are moving faster to a YOYO (you’re on your own) economy. Details in Bloomsburg Businessweek http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-07/defined-contributions-define-health-care-future-peter-orszag.html
Future of Health Insurance?
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