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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Another myth. I back up my positions or I can back them up. Perhaps immediately dismissing something from a conservative is unproductive.
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ace...I will offer this, based on a GAO report:
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A groundbreaking new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) — tax-favored savings accounts attached to high-deductible health insurance plans established under the 2003 Medicare drug law — are heavily skewed toward affluent individuals. The GAO findings also provide strong indications that HSAs are being used extensively as tax shelters. Finally, the GAO data suggest that HSAs can be beneficial to healthy individuals with relatively few health care costs, but not to people who have medical conditions and incur higher costs.
Many health and tax policy analysts have warned in recent years that HSAs are likely to be used extensively as tax shelters by high-income individuals. The Administration and other HSA proponents have rejected such concerns and argued that HSAs are not disproportionately used by high-income households.
GAO STUDY CONFIRMS HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS PRIMARILY BENEFIT HIGH-INCOME INDIVIDUALS
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ace...my comment was not meant as any kind of personal attack....but whenever I offer research that "backs of my position" and contradicts your position, be it health care, minimum wage, tuition assistance, tax policy...you dismiss it as myths, smoke and mirrors, scams....
There are two sides (or more) to most public policy issues.