Quotes from Sunday The New York Times 11/23/03:

from article titled "Tax-Free Accounts Drew Yeas From the Wary"

""This will spark a consumer revolution in health care," said (U.S. House of Representative) Mr. Ryan (of Wisconsin)..."It will get people shopping with their own dollars for health care," Mr. Ryan said.  Now, you don't care what your treatment costs because insurance is paying for it.""

"Republicans have dreamed of creating these accounts since they won control of Congress in 1994, but the most they have been able to get is an experiment, called medical savings accounts, enacted in 1996."