Such accounts would pay routine medical expenses.
Employers should offer plans that return decision-making to patients and doctors, even if it means routine medical expenses aren't fully "covered."
People buy such plans when they establish health savings accounts to pay routine medical expenses.
The implication is that helping most people to economize on routine medical expenses probably won't help much.
Under current law, people can make tax-deductible contributions to such accounts for routine medical expenses, provided they also buy high-deductible insurance policies to cover catastrophic costs.
The money would be used for routine medical expenses.
People would pay routine medical expenses from their accounts and, as a result, Republicans say, they would have new reason to be cost-conscious.
The provision would allow people to make tax-deductible contributions to medical savings accounts, which they would use to finance routine medical expenses.
People use health savings accounts to pay routine medical expenses and buy high-deductible insurance policies to cover larger expenses.
This includes many routine business-related expenses and benefits.