title: Medical savings accounts.
abstract: Let's take a walk down memory lane. Think real hard. Remember the good old days when patients came to your office, you diagnosed their illnesses, and you prescribed courses of treatment that your training and experience told you were necessary? Either patients paid you directly or you billed their insurance companies. And, if you decided hospitalization was needed, your patients stayed there until you decided they were well enough to go home. You and your patients made the necessary decisions.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: BeSaw
mesh_terms: D005382:Financing, Personal / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007353:Insurance, Long-Term Care; D007354:Insurance, Major Medical; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States