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Trump releases seven-point health care reform plan . . . and it’s excellent
Canada Free Press ^ | 03/03/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 03/03/2016 7:01:49 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

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To: DoodleDawg

HSA right now have to be spent each calendar year. He is for allowing them to accumulate and be part of your estate.


61 posted on 03/03/2016 10:44:57 AM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: packrat35
HSA right now have to be spent each calendar year. He is for allowing them to accumulate and be part of your estate.

I think you're confusing that with an FSA, Flexible Spending Account. FSAs are only good for the year and if you don't spend the money in it then you lose it. For HSAs you can roll money over to the next year. FSAs are also not transferable. HSAs can follow you from job to job.

I have an FSA because I have a low deductible insurance plan through my work. You can only have an HSA if you have a high-deductible insurance plan. My company does not offer an HSA because it does not offer a high-deductible option on any of the three health plans we have to choose from.

62 posted on 03/03/2016 11:06:50 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: jaydee770
"Big-Pharma is not going to shut down their businesses because they lose their monopoly."

You're just dead wrong on that one. There is simply NO monopoly in the pharmaceutical industry.

63 posted on 03/03/2016 11:09:36 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: packrat35

HSA right now have to be spent each calendar year. He is for allowing them to accumulate and be part of your estate.

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That is not accurate.

FSAs, Flexible Spending Accounts cannot carry over.

HSA’s can and do.


64 posted on 03/03/2016 11:12:20 AM PST by dmz
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To: katieetx828
I believe the cap right now is $2500 a year.

It's $3350 for individuals and $6550 for families. And his plan doesn't say if that will change.

65 posted on 03/03/2016 11:14:36 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: norwaypinesavage

“...There is simply NO monopoly in the pharmaceutical industry...”

Perhaps I shouldn’t describe the constraints on my access to lower cost medicine as a monopoly. So, instead of “monopoly”, you can choose a more appropriate descriptor for the reason I can’t legally buy prescription pharmaceuticals internationally and avoid paying big-pharma’s rates.


66 posted on 03/03/2016 11:40:03 AM PST by jaydee770
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67 posted on 03/03/2016 11:42:10 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: jaydee770
"you can choose a more appropriate descriptor"

It's called a 'patent'. US laws prevent importing of patented drugs. You have to understand that the production cost of most drugs is near zero. Almost all of the cost is in the FDA approval process. US drug manufacturers must price their products to recover that cost, as well as the costs of drugs that are not approved. They can also make a little profit from selling their products in price controlled countries outside the US. These prices are far below what the price would need to be to recover their FDA approval costs. So they price their drugs in the US to recover their US approval costs, and they price their products in other countries to make a little profit. Allowing reimportation of these drugs would eliminate the chance of recovering their FDA approval costs.

Once the patent expires (which is usually only a few years after the FDA approval is granted), all this goes away, because the FDA approval process also requires them to tell exactly how they make the drugs, so anyone can make them once the patent expires.

68 posted on 03/03/2016 11:59:29 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Mr. K
There’s no pleasing you anti-Trump people

You have me misdiagnosed. I am not anti-Trump. I am a Trump skeptic. He is a self-described chameleon who changes to meet the occasion. There are contradictions in his political history that have not been resolved to my satisfaction. If he is the nominee, I will easily pull the lever for him as the (potential) "devil I don't know" over Hillary, the devil herself.

69 posted on 03/03/2016 12:04:46 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke

Well said. Those are my sentiments as well.


70 posted on 03/03/2016 12:06:42 PM PST by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: Mr. K

I like what he had to say, so the question remains “is he bald face lying” to get the nomination - like the liars McCain and Romney turned out to be?


71 posted on 03/03/2016 2:07:25 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: norwaypinesavage

“...You have to understand that the production cost of most drugs is near zero. Almost all of the cost is in the FDA approval process...”

Oh, I understand it just fine. But the effect is the same. Sell to a captive market that is artificially denied access to other valid markets licensed by the same Pharma manufacturer and source govt. That smells like monopoly to me, whether it’s induced by govt or Pharma makes no difference to the consumer.

Once upon a time, a patent was used to constrain the manufacture, sale or use in the manufacture or sale of a product — not to prevent the *consumer* buying from an otherwise perfectly valid, licensed manufacturer or seller. If the consumer bought the drug from an unlicensed seller/manufacturer, the patent holder (and the govt) should have a problem with the unlicensed seller/manufacturer, not the consumer. But that’s not how it works, is it? Hence, artificial monopoly, “patent”, whatever you want to call it.


72 posted on 03/03/2016 2:35:47 PM PST by jaydee770
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