Theo Merkel testified Tuesday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on health care costs. Credit: Senate Finance Committee
Members of the Senate Finance Committee focused mainly on Medicare plans and individual major medical insurance Tuesday at a hearing on health care and health insurance costs.
Theo Merkel, a health policy analyst at the Paragon Health Institute, a research center that has been popular with Republican policymakers, touched on employer-sponsored health benefits when he talked about individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements, a relatively new strategy employers can use to provide cash that workers can use to buy their own health insurance.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
