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Thanks for the link. I'm utterly shocked and now I'm pissed. Thanks for alerting us to this nonsense, Jim!
Flexible Spending Accounts: New limitation imposed on page 325. (For the bill, see http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf.)
Medical Devices Tax: Page 339 of the House bill. The House version appears to exclude low cost items like meters...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 Page 2020, Section 9009
from page 2023
(A) has been classified in class II under
section 513 of the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360c) and is primarily
sold to consumers at r...
For anyone who doesn't want to see their FSA slashed, their insulin pumps, CGM systems, and glucose meters taxed, and insurance taxed to pay for the proposed health care reform, I would suggest writing to your House representatives and more import...
Please tell me where I can find the language for the legislation which says such things will be taxed. I cannot fathom this would actually be the case.
I remember reading a story about the likelihood of diabetes being tripled for kids breast fed for substantially less than 9 months or a year or something. When I found out my mom cut me off at 6, I gave her no end of guilt.
I agree - the same thing happens to me sometimes (boluses that appear to do nothing) and sometimes they just take several hours longer than expected to hit me, but other times, zippo, nothing, ever. I've never been able to figure this out.
Here is a letter I wrote to my Senators this morning on taxing diabetics to pay for the cost of health care reform:
http://tudiabetes.com/forum/topics/letter-for-your-senators
Whether you support or oppose anything like the current reform, taxin...
For anyone who doesn't want to see their FSA slashed, their insulin pumps, CGM systems, and glucose meters taxed, and insurance taxed to pay for the proposed health care reform, I would suggest writing to your House representatives and more import...
Spurred by your question I spent only 30 minutes looking for data on the internet and found very little. This article is representative of what I found. This WSJ article is more recent.
The plan would tax the industry $2 billion/year for 10 years...
I agree that taxing durable equipment seems to be counter-productive in reducing long term costs of care if the durable equipment investment improves health. It would be truly tragic if we had no insurance choices or regulation. Seems taxing busin...
I'd be interested in seeing the numbers on these taxes for durable medical equipment, and how that would affect the end cost of said products. Until I see that (or take a trip through Google-ville and find it myself) I'm going to with hold any kin...
No, not all low income people qualify for Medicaid because the qualifications are different by state and in ours, you do not qualify even if you are unemployed = no income, if you have not pro-created (have children/dependents). Here is a link to ...
If you think a single payer plan would provide lower coverage than your current plan, then by all means you should object. But why do you think it would? And would you object to it even if it provided the same or better coverage just because it's ...
I think we should help all of our citizens get good health care. I'm willing to pay higher taxes to do it. I'm not willing to turn my taxes to enrich private insurance companies as this house bill does. The current plan only gets people health ins...
One source of the "43.4% pay no taxes may be this 2006 report from the Tax Foundation. It includes people who pay payroll taxes that are ultimately refunded and consists mostly of single people and heads of households who just don't make enough mo...
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- Hometown (where you come from):
- Bay Area, CA
- Do you have diabetes?
- Yes
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Date diagnosed
- May 1, 1983
- Most recent A1C (Blood Glucose Average) Value
- 5.5
- What glucose meter do you use?
- Freestyle
- Type of treatment you use
- Shots, Diet and Exercise
- How did you find out about us? What were you searching for?
- DexCom Info
- What do you do for a living?
- Attorney
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- At 6:58pm on October 30, 2009,
Manny Hernandez said…
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- At 8:25pm on September 24, 2009,
MelissaBL said… - Welcome to the community, Jim. I'm really appreciating your contributions to different threads so far!
I noticed you haven't had a chance to add some kind of a profile image yet. To add a profile photo, use the Settings link in the menu at right. The first option on that page will walk you through adding a photo to your page.
- At 9:51pm on June 2, 2009,
Christina said… - Welcome to tudiabetes =]
- At 3:53pm on June 2, 2009,
Judith said… - Welcome to TuD, Jim. I'm so glad you found us. I have family in Santa Cruz and have been fortunate to visit the Bay Area once or twice a year for 30 years or so. Do love it.
Be sure to check out all the groups and don't hesitate to dive into any discussion, old or new.....Be well, now.....Judith in Portland
- At 2:49pm on June 2, 2009,
Jaimie Hernandez said… 
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