Posted on 11/25/2009 2:47:34 PM PST by Shellybenoit
congress is proposing to fund Obamacare is by putting a cap on Flexible Spending Medical Accounts. If you are not familiar with those accounts, they allow you to take pre-tax funds from every paycheck into an account managed by your company (or your company's vendor), that you can remove on a tax free basis to pay for uncovered medical bills.
This has been a particularly useful program in my family as I have two children with learning disabilities as well as chronic physical conditions (one with scoliosis the other with JRA). At various times in their lives each has required constant medical care, drugs, physical therapy, etc. My daughter was in a back brace for four years which had to be changed every six-eight months because she had the nerve to grow (at least our insurance company said she had a lot of nerve for needing a new brace). My son at times needed special treatments for the constant pain. You get the picture. Both, thank God, are doing very well.
While I had a Health Plan at work, when you add up the deductible, the treatments not allowed by the insurance company, the difference between the insurance company's "reasonable fee" and reality, and the difference between the 80% of the fee they are supposed to cover and their version of the reasonable fee, every year my family was thousands of dollars in the medical hole. Without the help of the tax savings from the Flexible Spending Medical Accounts, we might have been up to our "assets" in debt scrambling to get our children the medical care they needed.
My family's case is not unusual, nor is it extreme. That's why many are warning about the effects of Obamacare limiting flexible spending accounts on the nation's poor and middle class.
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One step away from forced euthanasia of disabled children...hmmm...this might even be worse.
The Democrats need to die.
Having a disabled child is bad behavior to liberals and as such must be taxed. They won’t force it for years but this incentive to abort serves that end goal.
“The Democrats need to die’’ AMEN TO THAT!!!! Yes!! Shouldn’t surprise anyone, Obamas letting kids die. Remember his crude reference to The Special Olympics? He’s a cold, heartless Marxist bastard.
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