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Briefing by Jere Downs of the Courier Journal (video): Straight Talk about Your First Year with a Health Savings Account
Her article can be found here.
About HSAs
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) were created by Public Law 108-173, the “Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003,” signed into law by President Bush on December 8, 2003. Health Savings Accounts will...
No-Brainer Health Care Is Passe (The New York Times)
It’s a time-honored ritual of autumn in corporate America: you get your thick company benefits package. You are asked to choose from a ”cafeteria” of benefits. Has anything good ever come out of a...
Health accounts complicate tax prognosis (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
When David Bauer sits down to do his state income taxes this month, he will have a new wrinkle to deal with: health savings accounts. A certified public accountant by training and an investment...
KNOWN HSAS COULD CUT HEALTH INSURANCE TAB (Sun-Sentinel)
This story began in November, when Humberto got a form letter telling him that, if he made no changes in his retiree health insurance plan, the monthly premium for family coverage would jump from...
Ways to save for medical bills (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Kathy O’Loughlin of San Francisco has been buying her own insurance since she retired last year, so when she read about tax-advantaged health savings accounts in January, she started shopping for one. Almost a...
Wisconsin a center for growing Health Savings Account business; Setting up and servicing the accounts could employ thousands, officials predict (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Health Savings Accounts are doing more for Wisconsin’s economy than giving employers a new tool to control insurance costs. The state has become a center for their creation, marketing and administration, and that is...
Howards Grove bank sold for $26 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
A small Sheboygan County bank considered a national leader in providing health savings accounts is being sold to a Connecticut bank for $26 million in cash. Webster Financial Corp., of Waterbury, Conn., said Tuesday...
MEDICAL EXPENSES; Evaluating health savings accounts (Newsday)
Michael and Robin Pasternack are among the lucky ones. Robin, a New York City public school teacher, has health insurance as part of her union contract that also covers their two young children. Michael...
Bush Health Care Plan Seems to Fall Short; Gap Grows Between Hard Data, Projections for Covering 10 Million Uninsured (Washington Post)
If the Republican-controlled Congress enacted President Bush’s entire health care agenda, as many as 10 million people who lack health insurance would be covered at a cost of $102 billion over the next decade,...
Tax breaks appealing; Health Savings Accounts rapidly gaining popularity (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
MILWAUKEE – Every time Kathleen Hirscher receives a bill for her health insurance, the premium is higher. In response to this common problem, the 61-year-old retired nurse has been slowly raising her deductibles and...
Ins, outs of Health Savings Accounts; On The Money; YOUR MONEY
The alphabet soup of health insurance and savings options has swelled by one, leaving many wondering how to spell relief. Approved in 2003 and launched this year, health savings accounts (HSAs) have joined the...