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The New Way To Lower The Cost Of Health Insurance
By Bruce Jugan

It seems that every day there is an article about the rising cost of health insurance, the high number of people with no health insurance, and our system of financing medical care which is broken and needs repair or replacement.

What goes unreported is that since January 1, 2004 there is a new way to finance medical expenses which drastically reduces the cost of medical insurance when compared to traditional forms of health insurance. The name of this radical new approach to financing health care is: Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs.

Health Savings Accounts combine a health insurance plan that will pay medical expenses after a patient has paid a few thousand dollars for m...
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