Despite all the controversy about the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit, the law signed by the president this month contains a gem of an idea that should command support across the political spectrum. Beginning Jan. 1, 250 million nonelderly Americans will acquire the right to have a tax-free Health Savings Account.
Despite all the controversy about the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit, the law signed by the president this month contains a gem of an idea that should command support across the political spectrum. Beginning Jan. 1, 250 million nonelderly Americans will acquire the right to have a tax-free Health Savings Account.
"There is nothing wrong with change if it is in the right direction," Winston Churchill observed. But of course it isn't always in the right direction, as events of the past year have shown. Significant 2003 public policy changes are taking us in new directions, both right and wrong.