Medical Savings Accounts May Be Frist's Big Health Care Plan

Fox News ^ | 12/27/02 | Fox News/Major Garrett

[chiller]

WASHINGTON

[Willie Green]

Given your indifference to tax deductibility, you must not be paying much in income taxes.

I pay plenty in taxes.
As a true conservative, I prefer tax code simplification and reduction of rates to manipulative deductions and loopholes for special interests.

And yes, I do think its time to get lower income folks back on the income tax rolls by putting a halt to exporting their jobs overseas.

[Yardstick]

Totally agree with you.

The health care "crisis" is the result of government tinkering, and the solution isn't more government tinkering. My suspicion -- based on the observation that the government is good at screwing things up, especially things that it has no right to be fiddling with in the first place -- is that an MSA scheme will just lead to more problems.

The only solution is to get the government out of health care, so that the law of cause and effect can get back into it. Then we'll have a rational health care system again.

[chiller]

Well, you got me on the paperwork part. We'll see...the overall tone my guys have is to make it work like we know, and they know it should. That doesn't include redtape up the butt.

When this debate hits Congress, let's make some "red tape noise.