medical savings accounts

• Medical savings accounts

• Medical savings accounts: a solution to finance health care?

Medical savings accounts would act somewhat like IRAs so that instead of an employer buying health insurance for an employee, the employee would buy a catastrophic policy and put the difference into a MSA. THe amount in the account would be rolled over each year.

• USA Today Magazine
• Vol. 124 Nbr. 2612, May 1996

• Medical savings accounts and property tax relief: a proposal for South Dakota.

A bill that encourages people to use medical savings accounts through property tax credits and rewards people for good health and the prudent purchase of health care services has been filed before the South Dakota Legislative Assembly. However, the bill has been temporarily shelved until the next session of the legislature pending further study. It is expected to lay the groundwork for South Dakota's petition to Congress asking that it be named as a site of a Medicare Medical Savings Account Demonstration Project.

• South Dakota Business Review
• Vol. 54 Nbr. 3, March 1996

• Health nuts: how Congress kept me from giving my employees Medical Savings Accounts.

Column The Kassebaum-Kennedy health insurance bill includes a four-year test period for Medical Savings Accounts (MSA) in the small-group market. Insurance agents, however, show no interest in selling MSAs because of the test-time and customer category limits and high enrollment capital constraints.

• Reason
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 7, December 1997

• Medical savings accounts: the critical factor in health care debate.

Much of the debate in the Clinton administration's proposed health care reform initiative revolved around medical savings accounts (MSA). Supporters contend that MSAs, in combination with catastrophic health insurance plans, can help reduce health care costs by prompting covered individuals to assume greater responsibility with regard to how their money is spent. On the other hand, oppositors argue that MSAs increase the risk of out-of-pocket payments and undermine traditional insurance arrangements.

• Government Finance Review
• Vol. 12 Nbr. 5, October 1996

• Are medical savings accounts the health care solution?

Tax-preferred medical savings accounts offer the potential advantages of reducing costs and paperwork and allowing individuals to keep the accounts if they change jobs or retire. The disadvantages are a loss of $2 billion in taxes over seven years and possible discrimination against the less healthy.

• USA Today Magazine
• Vol. 124 Nbr. 2606, November 1995

• Health Savings Accounts Offer Consumers a Way to Save Tax Free for Medical Care.

INDIANAPOLIS -- As you sit down to do your taxes this year, take a look at line 25 on Form 1040. It reads "Health savings account deduction," which ca...

• Business Wire
• March 16, 2011

• Let's Closely Examine Mccain's Record

Judges and Gang of 14 A key issue for conservatives every presidential election is the nomination of strict constructionist judges to serve on the Supreme Court.\n The RPC reported that the bill could bike health insurance costs by "as much as 31% over two years" and that "nearly half of employers" said they "would drop employee health coverage if Congress passes legislation exposing them to increased liability." McCain also voted to kill: an amendment (S Arndt. 846) requiring union-negotiated heaUhcare plans to be subject to the bill just as all other private group healthcare plans would have been; an amendment (S Amdt. 848) protecting from liability doctors who provide pro bono medical services to someone who did not have healthcare coverage or was unable to pay for the healthcare se...

...make medical savings accounts available to more Americans.". The New Yo...

• Human Events
• August 24, 2009

• Putnam City Sees Health Savings: ; Hurricane Experiment with Medical Savings Accounts for Cutting Costs

DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER As state employees wait for what could be a 22 percent increase in their health insurance premiums next year, other government agencies are seeing savings with a relatively new kind of insurance program.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• October 22, 2005

• Medicare+choice MSAs.

Medical savings accounts

• The Tax Adviser
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 10, October 1999

• Medical Savings Accounts.

Ann. 99-95 provides that the number of medical savings account (MSA) returns filed for 1998 was 32,371, and the applicable number of MSA returns proje...

• The Tax Adviser
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 11, November 1999