Health savings accounts (HSAs), which were created by the Medicare legislation recently passed by Congress, allow individuals to save for their future health care needs on a tax-preferred basis. HSAs are available to anyone who purchases high-deductible health insurance, and employers may also make tax-free contributions. Will HSAs become an...

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) have proven to be one of the most controversial provisions of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. Will HSAs blaze a trail to a more efficient health care system? Will they disrupt existing employer-sponsored insurance? Will they prove popular with health insurers, employers, and individual consumers?...

Tax-favored health accounts, including flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs), are an increasingly popular way for employees to pay for some of their out-of-pocket health expenses using pre-tax dollars. Do such accounts improve the incentives for workers to purchase health care more carefully? Do employers providing FSAs...

Will Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), made possible by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, bring about a revolution in the health insurance market? Will they lower the cost of health insurance and help to reduce the number of people without coverage?

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Health Savings Accounts contrast to the vision offered by John F. Kerry. The Kerry plan would spend $1 trillion overten years, expanding government's role in health care.

President Bush proposed to gradually change the way U.S. health care is purchased and offered an opportunity to rein in the rising costs of care.

American health spending continues its rapid increase while millions of Americans lack health insurance. For a change, we could get the consumer involved in making economic decisions.

Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, addressed how Americans can achieve greater economic stability in a changing global economy.