Health Care tax hikes

[meadandale]

http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/health-care-reform-tax-hikes-on-the-way.html

Brilliant. Thanks Obama/Pelosi/Reid. There’s a special place in hell for all you people.

As someone who has an HSA account with a high deductible policy this really pisses me off. I pay for everything out of pocket until I hit my annual cap. That means that I pay for 100% of doctor visits, prescription drugs, etc with money that I’ve set aside in my HSA account.

Now, due to the deals that were obviously struck with big pharma, I can longer buy any OTC medications using my HSA funds.

Oh, and just in case you didn’t get the memo, they are going to double the penalties for using your HSA funds for non-qualified expenses so they can stick it to you if you don’t realize they changed the law.

Fuck it…I’m going to just cancel my health insurance and go on the public dole. I pay out the ass in taxes every year and try to practice personal responsibility. That ends now.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

This 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.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

This 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.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

This 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.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

This 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.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

This 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.

[poorgradstudent]

My 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.

[poorgradstudent]

My 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.

[poorgradstudent]

My 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.

[poorgradstudent]

My 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.

[poorgradstudent]

My 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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