CONGRESS:; HSA GROWING. VERONIQUE DE RUGY, MERCATUS CENTER, GEORGE MAASON UNIVERSITYCONGRESS:; HSA GROWING. VERONIQUE DE RUGY, MERCATUS CENTER, GEORGE MAASON UNIVERSITY
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.5 | The big beautiful bill. |
| 0:14.0 | I welcome Veronique de Reggie, my guide on the BBB. |
| 0:18.4 | The general story is that the Republican House delivered and the Republican Senate answered, |
| 0:26.3 | and then the president signed the Big Beautiful Bill Act. |
| 0:30.4 | What's in it? |
| 0:31.5 | I'm learning. |
| 0:33.0 | Veronique, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:34.4 | We've talked about the taxes. |
| 0:36.2 | We've talked about the consideration of |
| 0:38.1 | expensing. Now we're talking about something called HSA, health savings account, created in 2003 |
| 0:45.8 | by the Bush administration and the Republican Congress at that time. What is it? How to define it? |
| 0:52.7 | Who uses it? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. |
| 0:56.2 | So a health savings account is like a 401k. It's like a it's like a 529 except it's for |
| 1:08.5 | healthcare. So it's basically money that you put, it's money that hasn't been taxed that you put in. |
| 1:17.6 | There's a limit to how much you can contribute. |
| 1:21.0 | And after it grows, so it's non-tax money. |
| 1:25.3 | And after it grows, and the interest that you make on it, when you consume it, you don't |
| 1:33.9 | pay any taxes on it. |
| 1:35.6 | So it's like tax-free three ways, basically. |
| 1:39.4 | But the condition is that you spend it on health care. |
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