At a Monday morning general session at EBN’s Benefit Forum & Expo, former Health Secretary Michael Leavitt warned benefits pros of the dangers to their plans that lie underneath the legalese in H.R. 3200 (the working health care reform legislation in the House).
Among the potential worrisome elements in the bill is the proposed health care advisory board, which Leavitt said, “would have one job, and that is to set the minimum federal standards for what a health plan looks like. This is where your benefits plans would be designed, and your would lose control over many of the tools and incentives that you currently use,” such as cost-sharing and health savings accounts.
