• The story behind Health Savings Accounts

    We’re back with another round of yearly open enrollments, benefit choices and premium increases and I thought it’d be a good time to talk about Health Savings Accounts(HSA), an underutilized tool when it comes to saving for you retirement(early or otherwise). An HSA is the most tax-advantaged account available to most investors and has many benefits that make it very attractive to most individuals. However, it is not one that’s commonly discussed in the same areas as IRAs or 401k and that’s a shame because HSAs are probably the best of breed when it comes to retirement savings accounts. The Basics HSAs came into being with the 2003 medicare reform…