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Second, it would provide a tax break for medical savings accounts.

Medical savings accounts will either pass the market test, or they won't.

Another would allow much wider use of medical savings accounts.

The fight over medical savings accounts goes to the heart of the health-care debate.

The House last month passed a similar but more complicated bill that includes medical savings accounts.

The options include medical savings accounts and various new forms of managed care like those available to workers in private industry.

Medical savings accounts will be part of our bill.

There was no limit on the number of people who could have signed up for medical savings accounts under the Republicans' 1995 bill.

Instead of a patients' bill of rights, we need medical savings accounts.

Consumers should be able to set up such "medical savings accounts" as an alternative to commercial insurance, they said.

The different plans for medical savings accounts vary in details, but the principle is the same.

He favors patients' freedom to choose their own doctors and to have individual medical savings accounts.

Medical savings accounts will only lead to further fragmentation of the insurance pool.

Medical savings accounts were first introduced as part of broad health care legislation in 1996, with wide support from Republican leaders.

Their version does not deal with malpractice, antitrust or medical savings accounts.

And the Senate rejected his plan to include medical savings accounts in a popular bill to make health insurance more accessible.

Favors tax breaks for medical savings accounts, so people have more health care choices.

The most serious battle was over one of its features, tax-sheltered medical savings accounts.

In fact, doctors tend to be among the strongest proponents of medical savings accounts.

The law specified that no more than 525,000 medical savings accounts would be allowed nationally in the first six months of this year.

These plans could be coupled with medical savings accounts, in which patients would save for smaller expenses.

Medical savings accounts can be set up by self-employed workers and people at companies that have 50 or fewer employees.

"Medical savings accounts were a classic example of good policy getting jettisoned by politics," she said.

The president pushed to open medical savings accounts while the senator laid out a plan to expand health coverage for children.

The Administration criticized the Republican proposal for medical savings accounts.