Given the requirements under the HSA law, federally qualified high deductible coverage comes very close to the bronze requirement of 60 percent.

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The HSA is limited to employees with high deductible coverage.

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Pet owners are able to choose from a rapidly growing array of policies, featuring everything from high-deductible designs to coverage of alternative-medicine treatments like acupuncture.

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That would pretty much put them on the same footing as the insured who have to pay their copay and deductible before their coverage kicks in.

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The employee uses part of the money to purchase high-deductible, catastrophic coverage for his family and the balance to cover co-pays, deductibles and other out-of-pocket medical expenses.

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Conversely, payments for extended health coverage often are tax-deductible as medical expenses.

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Under Mississippi law, however, the deductible endorsement did not render the policy ambiguous or otherwise expand coverage for wind damage to include water damage as well, the Fifth Circuit found.

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And given the fact that HSAs, and similar high deductible health insurance options, are about the only type of health coverage bending down the health care cost curve, they may even thrive.

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Those on a budget who can't get coverage through a parent or employer can buy low-cost, high-deductible, or catastrophic, policies that cover things like hospitalizations and offer access to doctors at discounted rates.

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