Nanny State wants Doctor's Note for Tylenol

"New Rules Coming for Payments Out of Health Savings Accounts...Under the new health care law, consumers using workplace pre-tax health savings accounts will soon need a doctor's note to pay for Tylenol and an estimated 15,000 other over-the-counter drugs.

Starting Jan. 1, employees who use flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health saving accounts (HSAs), or health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) to pay for common medications such as pain relievers, cold medicines, antacids and allergy medications will need prescriptions..." Full text: New Rules Coming for Payments Out of Health Savings Accounts Re 13:17.

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "You don't even know what you're whining about..."

Ad hominem.

You like government controlling your medical decisions?

"They are only asking for documentation if you want reimbursement..."

From your own heath savings account? From your earned income? It's ok--you can say it: "I need my nanny to check my doctor's note. I want a big government so that I can be a small citizen (Prager)."

See:

The Bigger the Government

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "They are not going to say "no"."

Why must they say anything about your savings plan? By the time they've finished the paperwork won't the headache be gone?...Maybe not.

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "What's next? Are they going to require a Doctor's note to kill your baby?"

No, killing your baby does not require a doctor's note.

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "Are you sweating getting a government reimbursement for your aspirin?"

Why did people put their wages into the account in the first place?

Response to comment [from other]:  "...[I]t's our money, in our own account."

I think they think it's theirs (Ex 20:15). Will you continue putting money into this account in the future? Do you think there's a benefit?

IRAs are the same. Government will charge you ten percent of your plan to buy US debt. They are like teenagers demanding more allowance.

Related/Update:

"...[M]ore than 15,000 over-the-counter (OTC) health care items will require a prescription (and that means a doctor's visit) for tax-free reimbursement.

Under Obamacare, OTC drugs cannot be reimbursed tax-free from Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) without a government bureaucrat-required permission slip.

In response to new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance (the IRS is the Obamacare enforcement agency), the Special Interest Group for IIAS Standards (SIGIS) released a new list of OTC medications that will require a prescription for a tax-free withdrawal from an HSA or an FSA under Obamacare. SIGIS is an industry group for health care debit card transactions and merchants. According to SIGIS, 15,000 OTC health care items are barred from purchase by these accounts without prescription.

Below is a partial list of the OTC item categories:

Acid Controllers
Allergy and Sinus medicine
Antibiotics
Anti-Diarrheals
Anti-Gas Products
Anti-Itch and Insect Bite
Anti-Parasitic Treatments
Baby Rash Ointments/Creams
Cold Sore Remedies
Cough, Cold, and Flu
Digestive Aids
Motion Sickness
Pain Relievers
Respiratory Treatments
Stomach Remedies

The detailed SIGIS Eligible Products List will be published on December 15, 2010.

As of May 2010, approximately 10 million people were covered under HSA plans for their family's health care needs. The non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this provision of Obamacare will cost families $5 billion." Full text

Re 13:11-17

Being a   liberal means never having to say you're sorry.  http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2436818#post2436818

Nanny State wants Doctor's Note for Tylenol