The new Bush plan for health care is centred around health care savings accounts. You put money away to help with your own health care:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=1546506
Health savings accounts
Health savings accounts are tax-free accounts that individuals or businesses can set up at banks or credit unions, in conjunction with the purchase of high-deductible, so-called catastrophic health insurance. Individuals can now contribute as much as $2,600, and families as much as $5,150 each year. Bush is expected to propose increasing these limits. The accounts are to be used for routine medical expenses, such as checkups and pharmaceutical costs. The insurance is there as a backup in case of a health emergency.
Interestingly enough, this is also a pet plan of Tom Flanagan, Stephen Harpers mentor/confidant/strategist:
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/09/2119243
Lined up against him are those true believers who have long made up the Reform and Alliance faithful – not to mention Flanagan himself. He has never blanched at owning up to his most contentious beliefs: scrapping medicare in favour of personal medical savings accounts – a policy adopted by some U.S. corporations
The parallels just keep coming.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=1546506
Health savings accounts
Health savings accounts are tax-free accounts that individuals or businesses can set up at banks or credit unions, in conjunction with the purchase of high-deductible, so-called catastrophic health insurance. Individuals can now contribute as much as $2,600, and families as much as $5,150 each year. Bush is expected to propose increasing these limits. The accounts are to be used for routine medical expenses, such as checkups and pharmaceutical costs. The insurance is there as a backup in case of a health emergency.
Interestingly enough, this is also a pet plan of Tom Flanagan, Stephen Harpers mentor/confidant/strategist:
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/09/2119243
Lined up against him are those true believers who have long made up the Reform and Alliance faithful – not to mention Flanagan himself. He has never blanched at owning up to his most contentious beliefs: scrapping medicare in favour of personal medical savings accounts – a policy adopted by some U.S. corporations
The parallels just keep coming.