John Raese on Health Care

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Free market is best approach for affordable health care

The free-market approach to ensuring that Americans have affordable health coverage is the best way to reach that goal. Big government socialized medicine doesn't work and the American people have rejected it out of hand.

What is working? For starters, Health Savings Accounts are where the market is trending as more and more insurance companies are coming out with HSA products. The number of people insured with HSAs has tripled in the last year.

Source: Campaign website, www.RaeseForSenate.org, "Issues" May 2, 2006

Supports Health Savings Accounts

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) help employers lower cost and give workers maximum choice and control over their health care. They can choose their own doctors and pay for medical expenses out of the Health Savings Account. Anything left over at the end of the year they get to keep and it rolls over to the next year. The money goes into the account tax free, grows in the account tax free, and can be withdrawn for medical expenses tax free as well. Source: Campaign website, www.RaeseForSenate.org, "Issues" May 2, 2006

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