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Medicare law's health savings accounts provoke controversy: tax shelter or access provider?(Practice Trends)

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

Author: Frieden, Joyce
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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group

Whether the new health savings accounts included in the giant Medicare reform law are a good idea depends on whom you talk to.

If employers start offering the accounts, "it will segment the risks because the young, healthy people will take up [health savings accounts], leaving the older, sicker people in traditional employer-based coverage, which tends to have modest deductibles, modest copays, and comprehensive benefits," said Edwin Park, senior health policy analyst...

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