Health Savings Account-Health Savings Account Info

Nag asked: Hi,
Typically our HMO pays 80% of the bill and we need to pay 20% of the bill which are few thousands $$$.We plan to open an HSA(Health Savings Account) to cover our baby birth/delivery expenses.
I didn’t see child birth in IRS form on HSA
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p502/index.html
But not sure whether child birth related expenses are eligible [...]

the d asked: Look at inflation? I bet everything has gone up in price 70% since september 13 2001. gas, houses, health insurance, food, college eduacation> WHat else hasn’t gone throught the roof? THen if you have savings account you get s*hit for interest rates,
Does anybody else feel [...]

Kaper asked: I have noticed a ton of questions in the past two days about sick dogs. I know they are always here, but it seems lately there are a lot more. The excuse is always I can’t afford a vet.
I have gotten into several debates about this. People have accused [...]

snoopy_0752 asked: won’t Pelosi let us read it, and why didn’t she tell us about all the new taxes?
Here they all are, with a brief description and page number:
• Employer Mandate Excise Tax (Page 275): If an employer does not pay 72.5 percent of a single employee’s health premium (65 percent of a family [...]

texaslibsticker asked: Instead of nationalized or socialized health insurance, shouldn’t all those promoting choice be backing my plan?
My plan is a medical savings account, which you contribute in to like insurance, but it’s actually an interest bearing savings account, and your insurance card is a bank check/ debit card. Since the account is in [...]

under_fire53 asked: Finance guru Earl Matthews (founder of aid4families.com) has set his sights on revolutionizing the pension plans of several countries. Like many of his brethren, David Filo and Jerry Yang (founders of Yahoo), Larry Page and Sergey Brin ( founders of google), and Chris Dewolf & Tom Anderson ( founders of Myspace), a generation [...]

jusme asked: Nelson also secured full and permanent federal funding for his state to extend Medicaid eligibility to everyone below 133 percent of the federal poverty level. The bill would require all states to do so, but Nebraska alone would not be required to pay a portion of the additional cost after 2016. Nelson also [...]

under_fire53 asked: Finance guru Earl Matthews (founder of aid4families.com) has set his sights on revolutionizing the pension plans of several countries. Like many of his brethren, David Filo and Jerry Yang (founders of Yahoo), Larry Page and Sergey Brin ( founders of google), and Chris Dewolf & Tom Anderson ( founders of Myspace), a generation [...]

under_fire53 asked: Finance guru Earl Matthews (founder of aid4families.com) has set his sights on revolutionizing the pension plans of several countries. Like many of his brethren, David Filo and Jerry Yang (founders of Yahoo), Larry Page and Sergey Brin ( founders of google), and Chris Dewolf & Tom Anderson ( founders of Myspace), a generation [...]

Rise Above asked: Personally I’d rather see a system more like Singapore has. It wouldn’t make me popular in conservative circles but I’d like everyone (and I do mean everyone) to have a basic government run catastrophic health insurance policy. Everyone would have a health savings account. People who want better coverage could buy it [...]