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Chris Browning explains what a health savings account is and how you can sign up for one.

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop .

Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas, toothbrushes — or insurance premiums.

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President Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching the accounts as an alternative to expiring enhanced federal subsidies that have lowered insurance premium payments for most Americans with Affordable Care Act coverage. But legal limits on how HSAs can and can’t be used are prompting doubts that e

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