May 03, 2008
Thurston Howell III Would Have Loved Health Savings Accounts
The Wall Street Journal health blog this week put that clever Gilligan's Island spin on a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office suggesting that health savings accounts are fine for the rich — but that’s about it. 
The blog posting kicked off many interesting reader responses. One of my faves:
"I have been in the HSA and hi deduct insurance plans for 3 years. First 2 years were nice, saving on premiums and socking away some money. The third year, 2008, my wife spent the first 6 days in the hospital, so now I am on the losing side of the “savings”. Can I get on Stark and Waxman’s health plan?As usual, the socialists (read Democrats) use analysis of “averages” to prove a point when there is not a point. Next year I will retire and take all of my money to another country. Hasta la vista, comrades, communism does not work and is not for me."
As Thurston Howell III once said on the show: "No one can pull the wool over my eyes. Cashmere maybe, but wool, never."
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