I have a special needs child who requires occupational and speech therapy each week. I had a policy at my job which adequately covered a sizeable portion of those charges. And I also had an FSA which enabled me to pay for the rest with pre-tax income.
Since Obamacare was passed, our company was forced to change policies in order to be compliant with the new restrictions and mandates put in place by the bill. The new policy does not cover my son's therapy costs. Because of that, I have already spent more out of pocket in the first two months of this year than I did all of last year. My wife and I have now notified our child's therapists that we can no longer afford to pay and have cancelled treatment. And to add insult to injury, the FSA ceiling limit will be cut in half beginning next year, which will effectively reduce the amount my family has available for health care costs by $625. Yes, that's right. That's $625 I could be paying for my son's therapy that now will go instead to the federal government.
Obamacare is pure evil, and it needs to be stopped today. But our Republican leadership [sic] in Congress really doesn't care.
I have two special needs children and face the same dilemma. Maybe a group of parents with special needs children should go to Washington and testify in front of Congress. If they could actually see the lives this abomination is affecting are flesh and blood individuals it might push them to do the right thing.