The concept is very popular and has broad based constituency support. It enables patients to be direct consumers of health care services with their service providers. If tax relief has merit in the 106 th Congress, there is no more important provision than the stimulation of personal savings for health care. By far the largest single number of those that are uninsured are individuals between jobs or temporarily not working. This recommendation provides physicians a source of consumer funding for direct payment and consumerism of health care services by their patients.
Medical plans cover a range of health care services specifically defined by their contract.
This recommendation provides a funding source for these uncovered medical services independent of the insurance plans. This recommendation encourages savings specifically for health care.