Marketplace: Harm or Heal?

Friday, February 3, 2006

Harm or Heal?

Health Saving Accounts -- the new trend in health care -- are supposed to help you sock away money for when you get sick. But do they really work? You might want to know because President Bush is looking to push these programs. Marketplace's Hillary Wicai reports.

U.S. President George W. Bush delivers his State of the Union address 31 January 2006 on the floor of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo:)

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