Getting Personal
Tess Vigeland and economics editor Chris Farrell answer listeners' pressing questions about rent-to-own properties, the credit card reform bill, and saving for health care after retirement.
Getting Personal (Marketplace)
More on The Economy, Spending, Jobs, Investing, Housing - Real Estate, Saving
Links
- Audio: Part 2
Each week on Marketplace Money, host Tess Vigeland looks at the week's major national and international stories that will impact the average listener's wallet. - Plan for your health
- E-Health Insurance
- HA Insider
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From Seattle, WA, 06/14/2009
Ditto Uintah Shabazz but I thought the company names you gave were different... I still can't find the links.
06/13/2009
You named two websites for Health Savings Accounts: Healthinsurance.com and Healthinsider.com. You said you'd put links to these sites on this webpage. (I haven't found them.) I cannot find anything about HSAs on either site. I'm looking for HSA available to the public.
From Bakersfield, VT, 06/13/2009
In today's segment about HSAs, one important detail was omitted: it's a federally-based program, and as such, no funds from the account can be used for the health expenses of unmarried partners, regardless of gender mix, or even for the married partners in same-sex couples in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, or New Hampshire (with Maine awaiting the outcome of a referendum on its legislature's marraige equality bill).
Because the federal government does not recognize such marriages, an employee's same-sex spouse cannot use the funds. And unless any children of the relationship are biologically related to the employee, or legally adopted, the funds cannot be used for their care, either.
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