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March 24, 2010 at 12:07 PM #17254March 24, 2010 at 12:21 PM #530396
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ParticipantThis one is bullshit – A ban on using funds from flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements or health savings accounts for the cost of over-the-counter medications, starting in 2011.
Looks like I am buying up all sorts of OTC crap if I have surplus at the end of the year.
March 24, 2010 at 12:21 PM #530524LAAFTERHOURS
ParticipantThis one is bullshit – A ban on using funds from flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements or health savings accounts for the cost of over-the-counter medications, starting in 2011.
Looks like I am buying up all sorts of OTC crap if I have surplus at the end of the year.
March 24, 2010 at 12:21 PM #530975LAAFTERHOURS
ParticipantThis one is bullshit – A ban on using funds from flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements or health savings accounts for the cost of over-the-counter medications, starting in 2011.
Looks like I am buying up all sorts of OTC crap if I have surplus at the end of the year.
March 24, 2010 at 12:21 PM #531073LAAFTERHOURS
ParticipantThis one is bullshit – A ban on using funds from flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements or health savings accounts for the cost of over-the-counter medications, starting in 2011.
Looks like I am buying up all sorts of OTC crap if I have surplus at the end of the year.
March 24, 2010 at 12:21 PM #531332LAAFTERHOURS
ParticipantThis one is bullshit – A ban on using funds from flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements or health savings accounts for the cost of over-the-counter medications, starting in 2011.
Looks like I am buying up all sorts of OTC crap if I have surplus at the end of the year.
March 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM #530406poorgradstudent
ParticipantMy girlfriend uses a HSA for her prescription medications. It doesn’t look like the changes will really affect her. It was nice knowing that if there was money left over we could burn it on tums and aspirin, and I do feel the ban on OTC medications with HSA is a bad change; there are a lot of extremely helpful OTC medications out there, many of which arguably are part of “preventative medicine” and we should be encouraging people to use. Still, HSAs were never really intended as a way for people to dodge paying taxes with common household expenditures.
I’m not a huge fan of mandatory health insurance. I personally think we should have paid for these important reforms the way we pay for wars: income taxes. Health spending benefits the overall population more than bombs and guns do, and health issues kill way more Americans each year than terrorists could ever hope to.
I also think the excise tax on high cost health plans will lead directly to the thresholds being the exact amount of coverage employers provide. As a revenue stream it will be useless. As a cost-control method, it might be effective in creating a more level playing field. Or, it could hit the consumer with more out of pocket costs.
March 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM #530534poorgradstudent
ParticipantMy girlfriend uses a HSA for her prescription medications. It doesn’t look like the changes will really affect her. It was nice knowing that if there was money left over we could burn it on tums and aspirin, and I do feel the ban on OTC medications with HSA is a bad change; there are a lot of extremely helpful OTC medications out there, many of which arguably are part of “preventative medicine” and we should be encouraging people to use. Still, HSAs were never really intended as a way for people to dodge paying taxes with common household expenditures.
I’m not a huge fan of mandatory health insurance. I personally think we should have paid for these important reforms the way we pay for wars: income taxes. Health spending benefits the overall population more than bombs and guns do, and health issues kill way more Americans each year than terrorists could ever hope to.
I also think the excise tax on high cost health plans will lead directly to the thresholds being the exact amount of coverage employers provide. As a revenue stream it will be useless. As a cost-control method, it might be effective in creating a more level playing field. Or, it could hit the consumer with more out of pocket costs.
March 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM #530985poorgradstudent
ParticipantMy girlfriend uses a HSA for her prescription medications. It doesn’t look like the changes will really affect her. It was nice knowing that if there was money left over we could burn it on tums and aspirin, and I do feel the ban on OTC medications with HSA is a bad change; there are a lot of extremely helpful OTC medications out there, many of which arguably are part of “preventative medicine” and we should be encouraging people to use. Still, HSAs were never really intended as a way for people to dodge paying taxes with common household expenditures.
I’m not a huge fan of mandatory health insurance. I personally think we should have paid for these important reforms the way we pay for wars: income taxes. Health spending benefits the overall population more than bombs and guns do, and health issues kill way more Americans each year than terrorists could ever hope to.
I also think the excise tax on high cost health plans will lead directly to the thresholds being the exact amount of coverage employers provide. As a revenue stream it will be useless. As a cost-control method, it might be effective in creating a more level playing field. Or, it could hit the consumer with more out of pocket costs.
March 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM #531083poorgradstudent
ParticipantMy girlfriend uses a HSA for her prescription medications. It doesn’t look like the changes will really affect her. It was nice knowing that if there was money left over we could burn it on tums and aspirin, and I do feel the ban on OTC medications with HSA is a bad change; there are a lot of extremely helpful OTC medications out there, many of which arguably are part of “preventative medicine” and we should be encouraging people to use. Still, HSAs were never really intended as a way for people to dodge paying taxes with common household expenditures.
I’m not a huge fan of mandatory health insurance. I personally think we should have paid for these important reforms the way we pay for wars: income taxes. Health spending benefits the overall population more than bombs and guns do, and health issues kill way more Americans each year than terrorists could ever hope to.
I also think the excise tax on high cost health plans will lead directly to the thresholds being the exact amount of coverage employers provide. As a revenue stream it will be useless. As a cost-control method, it might be effective in creating a more level playing field. Or, it could hit the consumer with more out of pocket costs.
March 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM #531342poorgradstudent
ParticipantMy girlfriend uses a HSA for her prescription medications. It doesn’t look like the changes will really affect her. It was nice knowing that if there was money left over we could burn it on tums and aspirin, and I do feel the ban on OTC medications with HSA is a bad change; there are a lot of extremely helpful OTC medications out there, many of which arguably are part of “preventative medicine” and we should be encouraging people to use. Still, HSAs were never really intended as a way for people to dodge paying taxes with common household expenditures.
I’m not a huge fan of mandatory health insurance. I personally think we should have paid for these important reforms the way we pay for wars: income taxes. Health spending benefits the overall population more than bombs and guns do, and health issues kill way more Americans each year than terrorists could ever hope to.
I also think the excise tax on high cost health plans will lead directly to the thresholds being the exact amount of coverage employers provide. As a revenue stream it will be useless. As a cost-control method, it might be effective in creating a more level playing field. Or, it could hit the consumer with more out of pocket costs.
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