{"id":16513,"date":"2020-07-24T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16513"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:07:40","slug":"is-your-health-insurance-plan-eligible-for-a-health-savings-account-hsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16513","title":{"rendered":"Is your health insurance plan eligible for a health savings account (HSA)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare is a major expense for many people including workers and retirees, so it pays to do what you can to make it as affordable as possible.\u00a0 According to HSA Bank, almost half of Americans may be losing out on an opportunity to save money by not knowing whether their health insurance plans are eligible for a health savings account (HSA). \u00a0The money you put into an HSA goes in tax-free and any funds you don\u2019t use immediately for medical care can be invested and grown into a larger sum, and those gains won\u2019t be taxed.\u00a0 In Maurie Backman\u2019s article, she explains how an HSA can help you now and into the future. Read Ms. Backman\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2020\/07\/24\/42-of-americans-dont-know-this-key-feature-of-thei.aspx\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8394\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare is a major expense for many people including workers and retirees, so it pays to do what you can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16515,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions\/16515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}