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Health savings accounts and tax time–how do they go together?

March 10th, 2010 No Comments

When people understand them, many like the idea of health savings accounts. They aren’t for everyone, but no one type of health care coverage is. Otherwise, we’d all have the same plan, and health care reform would have hit by now. What does a health savings account (HSA) have to do with tax time? Well, Continue reading →

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Health Savings Accounts–now you get a more realistic idea of the cost of care

August 8th, 2008 No Comments

Did you know that it doesn’t really cost $10 to see a doctor? The HMO plans have gotten people into the mind set that it’s only $10 to see a doctor. When you have a Health Savings Account (HSA) you have a much more tuned in idea of cost. In HMO plans mainly, you have Continue reading →

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Health Savings Accounts–I don’t get it, please explain it

July 12th, 2008 1 Comment

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) have been around since 2004 and grew out of the Archer Medical Savings Account pilot. Initially, there weren’t a lot of trustees that handled HSAs. But NOW, four years later, since people have figured out there is money to be made, most banks and more credit unions are offering them as Continue reading →

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