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Health, Welfare, & Entitlements > Health Savings Accounts


Books and Book Chapters

Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, by Michael F. Cannon and Michael D. Tanner (Cato Institute, 2005)

"Private Health Care," Chapter 27 of the Cato Handbook for Congress, 108 Congress.

Patient Power: The Free-Enterprise Alternative to Clinton's Health Plan, by John C. Goodman and Gerald L. Musgrave (1994).

Cato Studies

"Health Savings Accounts: Do the Critics Have a Point?," by Michael F. Cannon, Policy Analysis no. 569, May 30, 2006

"Medical Savings Accounts: Progress and Problems under HIPAA," by Victoria Craig Bunce, Policy Analysis no. 411, August 8, 2001

"The Establishment Strikes Back: Medical Savings Accounts and Adverse Selection," by Peter Ferrara, Briefing Paper no. 26, April 4, 1996

"The Wrong and Right Ways to Reform Medicare," by Doug Bandow and Michael D. Tanner, Policy Analysis no. 230, June 8, 1995

"Medical Savings Accounts: Answering the Critics," by Michael D. Tanner, Policy Analysis no. 228, May 25, 1995

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Articles and Newsletters

"Combining and Health Care Reform with Large HSAs," by Michael F. Cannon, Cato Tax and Budget Bulletin no.23, May, 2005.

Opinion and Commentary

"Congress Messing with Your HSA," by Michael F. Cannon, Orange County Register, May 12, 2008

"Healthy McCain," by Michael F. Cannon, National Review (Online), May 8, 2008

"Friends Want Friends to Do Health Care," by Michael F. Cannon, National Review (Online), October 16, 2007

"I'm Not Going to Pay a Lot for This MRI," by Michael F. Cannon, Weekly Standard, June 15, 2007

"Schwarzenegger’s Health-Care Shakedown," by Michael F. Cannon, National Review (Online), January 22, 2007

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Events

"Health Care University," December 10, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"Health Savings Accounts: Not Entirely Consumer Directed (Yet)," May 24, 2007 [Policy Forum]

"Can Health Savings Accounts Cover the Uninsured?," May 3, 2005 [Policy Forum]

"A New and Improved Health Policy Agenda for 2003," January 9, 2003 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

Speeches and Congressional Testimony

"Rising Health Care Costs: The New Role for Consumer Empowerment, Greater Cost Medical Savings Accounts, and Two-Tiered Defined Contribution Health Plans," by Tom Miller, Speech before Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Health, August 13, 2002.




Multimedia

Daily Podcast "The Tax Code and Large Health Savings Accounts" featuring Michael F. Cannon, March 17, 2008 [Flash Audio, 10:42]

Daily Podcast "Improving Health Savings Accounts" featuring Michael F. Cannon, December 22, 2006 [Flash Audio, 05:17]

Daily Podcast "A Critical Look at Health Savings Accounts" featuring Michael F. Cannon, June 1, 2006 [Flash Audio, 05:58]