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  • The best health insurance for you.

    For the average person with no significant expensive chronic problems, the best insurance strategy for you is:

    • Purchase a high deductible health plan for $140 a month (ideally with an associated Health Savings Account (HSA))
    • Discontinue the traditional, expensive pre-paid health care plan we’re all used to (say this costs $600 a month ($7200 a year))
    • Put the cost difference of the two plans into your Health Savings Account - over the course of the year you would have $5,520 in your HSA with money that you don’t have to pay taxes on (tax savings of $1,600)
    • Pay cash for health care out of this account knowing the average person will spend over $10,000 in a given year only once every 10 years. By paying cash, you get real customer service for health care and can go anywhere you’d like without annoying in/out of network restrictions and wondering whether or not your insurance covers things you want most (like therapy visits)
    • Earn interest on the pre-tax dollars in your HSA that roll over year to year and always maintain this $10,000 health care “buffer.” After a few years, you won’t have to put hardly any money into this account besides what you’ve used.


    You’ll save over $50,000 in 10 years by doing this and be able to use this money for other investments.

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      investments if you’re putting the entire difference in premiums into the HSA? What am I missing?
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