Money: Self-Help Health

With double-digit increases in health-care costs, more companies are turning to consumer-directed health plans, which transfer control--and much of the responsibility for paying--to workers. Features include cost sharing with employees, high deductibles, reimbursement accounts, preventive medicine and health savings accounts, which, like individual retirement accounts, allow workers to sock away money tax free. --By Barbara Kiviat

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