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• Health savings accounts: Are they helping consumers?
  For several years companies have turned to health savings accounts to reduce costs. HSAs are high deductible plans that shift more of the responsibility for medical care onto the consumer. Recently, Indiana announced it would start offering HSAs to the poor. The question remains whether shifting to HSAs will contain costs better than other forms of health insurance.9:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Stephen Parente: Associate professor, Carlson School of Management at University of Minnesota. He specializes in health insurance and health economics.
  Mila Kofman: Associate research professor, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. She focuses on private health insurance reforms and their impact on the under-insured and uninsured.
  More from MPR
  Employees not seeing many HSA bargains (11/25/2007)
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  About Stephen Parente
  About the Health Policy Institute
  Mila Kofman Paper on HSAs
• Stories off the sidewalk
  For several years, StoryCorps booths have allowed ordinary people relate their own stories to be preserved in a huge and growing collection in the Library of Congress.10:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Dave Isay: Founder and executive director of StoryCorps. A collection of StoryCorp stories are in the new book, "Listening is An Act of Love."
  More from MPR
  The story of StoryCorps (09/18/2007)
  Resources
  StoryCorps
  StoryCorps on NPR
• The subprime mortgage crisis
  Midmorning examines the Fed's proposal to limit risky lending. The move has been applauded by many, but critics say it may be too little too late.10:45 a.m.
  Guests
  Prentiss Cox: Associate professor of clinical law at the University of Minnesota.
  More from MPR
  Five charged in alleged mortgage fraud scheme (12/10/2007)
  President's plan aims to stem foreclosures, but will it work? (12/06/2007)
  Predatory lending law causes headaches for some home buyers (11/21/2007)
  Pawlenty announces foreclosure aid (11/16/2007)
  Resources
  About Prentiss Cox
  MPR: President's plan aims to stem foreclosures, but will it work?
  MPR: The mortgage credit crunch

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