As of Jan 1, 2013… those people that used FSA (Flexible Spending Account) to pay for healthcare expenditures such as deductibles and copays and things not covered by insurance. This was all “tax free” money. Now the Feds have placed a limit of $2500.00/yr per employee. Likewise, if a person/couple itemizes deductions.. previously 7.5% of first medical expense was not deductible.. that is now 10%.
How much of these additional “stealth taxes” are going to discourage people to seek care or not be compliant with their medication and/or disease prevention and/or disease management.
With the ACO’s ( Accountable Care Organizations) – think Kaiser type entity – proposed to be the core fiscal responsible entity for Obamacare.. and the primary goal of these ACO’s is to keep people out of the hospital… are things starting to stack up as being counter productive … toward that goal?
How much collateral damage – pt death & lower quality of life – is going to happen before the powers to be figure it out.. if they ever figure it out…
It would appear that the Supreme Court was correct in labeling Obamacare as a TAX program…
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