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Groups Oppose Flex-Spending Account Cap In Health Care Bill
A collection of groups is opposing the flex-spending cap in the sweeping health care bills Congress is debating.
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WASHINGTON (November 2, 2009)--A health care legislation provision that would cap an employee's annual contribution to tax-free health care spending accounts is running into opposition from an odd assortment of groups.
Bills in both the House and Senate would cut off employee contributions at $2,500 for the accounts that help them pay for dental work, insurance copayments or over-the-counter drugs.
Capping contributions would raise more than $13 billion over 10 years to help pay for the health care overhaul.
A group called Save Flexible Spending Plans, which is backed by insurers, companies and a powerful union, is running a limited print ad campaign against the cap, calling it a "definite tax on the middle class, particularly those with chronic illnesses."
A Senate Finance Committee spokeswoman, however, said the impact would be limited, because data suggest the average contribution to the plans in 2008 was less than $1,400.
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Okay, I am forced to concede that a lot of what Observer is saying about the happenings of the Republicans and deregulation for profit is true. (Even though I have had threads w/ Oserver opposing most everything else). Paul says in the Bible that religion is this - to take care of widows and orphans (implying a sense of responsibility of society to the downtrodden). Citizen had it right about the highway system & keeping to the point. The point is health care, and the Dems have it wrong about making it gov run. Health ins companies and medical services need proper regulation in the worst way. Placing gov in charge of providing health care is misuse of the purpose of gov, costly, dangerous to our level of care, dangerous to our economy and costly to every American.
Here's a little trivia for you...something you apparently do not know: Republicans in charge of Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae had told Democrats that the two mortgage giants were hunky-dory & did not need reforming when Republican Chuck Hagel's bill to reform them was in Committee. At the same time, Republicans at Freddie Mac paid a Republican lobbying firm TWO MILLION DOLLARS SECRETLY (Under the table) to lobby Republicans to KILL Chuck Hagel's reform bill so they could continue their gravy train of fraud, greed & looting at Freddie & Fannie. For over a year, DCI (the Reublican lobbying firm) lobbied 17 Senators in 13 states to kill Hagel's bill, which subsequently died in Committee. Republican greed killed Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae. You must have missed this story when even FOX NEWS reported it.
who was a sitting senator when reform was brought up for fannie and freddie? and how did he vote? some more of that history trivia for ya..
