Reply #89: I found this on Think Progress, re: HSAs

[Caoimhe]

President Bush will use tomorrow’s State of the Union address to promote “health savings accounts” as a solution to America’s health care crisis. Multiple studies have shown that HSAs are likely to increase the number of uninsured and increase health care costs, all while costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. In other words, President Bush is proposing to do for health care what he’s already tried with Social Security — placing more of the cost burden on individuals, while making the system more attractive to the wealthy but less effective for ordinary Americans who need health coverage most.

WHAT ARE HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS?: Generally speaking, they are tax-free savings accounts combined with high-deductible insurance policies that people obtain through their employers or buy independently from insurance companies.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/30/the-truth-about-health-savings-accounts/

I feel sick to my stomach thinking about this criminal-in-chief and his anti-American, anti-family, anti-worker, anti-woman, anti-poor schemes to line his own (and his wealthy friends) fucking pockets!