Sentences with phrase «dollars it pays health»

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If you pay for health insurance with after - tax dollars, your premiums might be able to count toward the deductible.

If, for example, you pay Tom $ 2,000 per month and let him get his own health insurance, he would have to pay for the health insurance with dollars shrunken by a tax bite.

These dollars can pay for deductibles, unreimbursed portions of medical bills, or items not otherwise covered by the health plan, such as vision or well - baby care.

Save money to pay for qualified health or dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.

Health Savings Account (HSA)-- This is a personal savings account designed to let participants pay for medical expense with pre-tax dollars.

As a Catholic I do not stand by President Obama and push to have contraceptives and morning after pills distributed through private and religious based health care providers like their simple sweet jelly beans, especially when they must be paid for with tax dollars.

Then their employees can pay thousands of dollars for health emergencies.

The picture of that disgusting, pathetic, utterly gross fat woman (see the picture on the headline) reminded me of two things: one, she (and those like her) are the reason health care is in crisis, and two, why should I, or my tax dollars, pay for her utterly bad judgement and complete lack of self respect?

He and his wife settled on health care sharing — where fellow members pay a few hundred dollars a month to cover each other's major medical bills — after they struggled to find major insurance carriers in their state that offered individual plans or affordable options through the ACA marketplace.

It is cruel to allocate health - care resources in such a way that the young and those in mid-life, who still have so much to live for and so much to contribute, must through their tax dollars be forced to pay for sophisticated equipment to prolong lives which long for nothing so much as to return to their Giver.

«In addition, each of them receives a benefit package that includes 100 % paid health insurance, short term and long tern disability insurance and a life insurance policy for free, two weeks paid vacation, plus 8 paid personal or sick days and 50 cents on a dollar matching contribution to a retirement plan.

In Australia, where the health service pays for four routine scans, in one recent year, billing for obstetrical ultrasound was $ 60 million Australian dollars.

The suit, part of Cuomo's ongoing investigation, also alleges that the health clinic paid for family vacations as purported business trips, and that it gave him an essentially unlimited line of credit on a corporate American Express card on which he racked up nearly half a million dollars in charges he later identified as personal.

I am not arguing that the elderly, the disabled, etc., need what reasonable people can agree is a basic decent level of health care appropriate to our society and the state of our economy which keeps them alive, but you are advocating giving free health care that exceeds what someone who pays thousands of dollars in insurance premiums every year can receive!

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

Former Senator and briefly Senate Majority Leader, Pedro Espada was convicted by a Federal jury of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health care clinic network he had created and ran in the Bronx, despite having an annual salary of $ 235,000 with generous perks on top of his legislative pay.

Who wins when veterans, cancer patients, children with disabilities, pregnant mothers and victims of sexual assault have to pay thousands of dollars more to get worse health care plans that don't actually cover anything?»

He says nearly $ 3 billion dollars in savings expected from the federal Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare, could help pay for the partial takeover.

Reform the Child Health Plus Program for greater fairness — Establishing premium contributions and co-pay levels at rates comparable to what state employees are required to pay would be a responsible and appropriate action to ensure the long term viability of the program and generate tens of millions of dollars annually.

In a statement, Masterpole said the health care report his office produced in 2012 is saving the city millions of dollars annually in what it pays in medical benefits to city employees and their dependents.

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the Democratic nominee for governor, filed a civil suit in April accusing Mr. Espada of steering millions of dollars from his nonprofit health care network to pay for vacations, meals, and housing and campaign expenses.

ALBANY, NY — The Office of the State Comptroller of New York issued an audit of the Westchester County Health Care Corporation («WCHCC») which has raised questions about millions of dollars in bonuses paid out to senior executives with little or no indication that the bonuses had been earned.

* A contribution toward health insurance: Fully - paid health insurance is gone under the new contract, with teachers agreeing to pay a flat dollar amount.

«First - dollar coverage» means that women will not pay anything out - of - pocket for their office visits or contraceptive methods — no copays and no deductibles — because these costs will be covered by health insurance.

«Medicare Part D requires a substantial investment from the Federal Government, and the million dollar question has been, «Does this investment help to pay for itself by improving the health of seniors who have gained coverage?»»

He also believes that the executives at «non-profit» health chains have seized some of the tax - exempt advantage for their own personal enrichment, paying themselves millions or even tens of millions of dollars in compensation.

It is particularly distressing that people often go to these clinics for relief or a cure for an intractable disease or injury, and can end up paying thousands of dollars for products that are not approved for use as advertised, have not been scientifically tested to know if they work, and can put their health in jeopardy.

You can also pay with tax - free dollars through your health savings account (HSA) or flexible spending account (FSA).

This would result in one of every six health care dollars spent in total direct health care costs paying for overweight and obesity - related costs.»

In health food stores and co-ops you can pay several dollars for just 2 - 3 shitake mushrooms.

The owners of Nopalea have also paid off a $ 3.5 million dollar settlement for making false health claims about this beverage.

The more costly the health insurance, the larger the flow of dollars into union accounts, and the fatter the pay check union organizers collect.

Keeping an eye on your luggage and personal items is something all travellers should be conscious of, particularly with figures for Teachers Health Fund travellers between July 2013 and June 2014 showing that lost and stolen luggage was the highest paid claim type in Asia, Europe and the Pacific with tens of thousands of dollars in claims.

Schools in El Dorado Hills, Calif., are paying millions of dollars to remove or cover naturally occurring asbestos that poses no health risk, according to a report from a scientific research firm.

And that amount does not include the thousands of dollars the employer (ultimately the taxpayer) has to pay for contributions to the teacher / union leader's retirement fund, health benefits, unemployment insurance and workers compensation.

«Why would a teacher come to a place like Detroit to make somewhere in the mid-30s [thousand dollars] and then the government will turn around and say, «You'll pay 20 percent of your health care costs, get 40 to 60 kids in a classroom, and say, oh, we'll make the teacher evaluations arbitrary and capricious.»

State Superintendent Tony Evers said Thursday he is concerned a proposal from Gov. Scott Walker to tie more than half a billion dollars in new school funding to how much school districts» staff are paying toward their health care costs could be misapplied to districts that have cut costs.

¹ Your HDHP provides protection from catastrophic medical costs, and the HSA provides you with a source of funds to pay some or all of the costs not covered by the health plan — using pre-tax dollars.

Iowa allows a deduction in full for health insurance premiums paid with AFTER - TAX * dollars.

For example, Medicare pays about 20 cents on the dollar for what a health provider bills.

A health savings account (HSA) allows you to pay for medical expenses using pre-tax dollars.

As pointed out in KeithB's comment, you can not deduct any health insurance premium (or other medical expense) that was paid for out of pre-tax dollars, nor indeed can you deduct any medical expense to the extent that it was paid for by the insurance company directly to hospital or doctor (or reimbursed to you) for a covered expense; e.g. if the insurance company reimbursed you $ 72 for a claim for a doctor's visit for which you paid $ 100 to the doctor, only $ 28 goes on Schedule A to be added to the amount that you will be comparing to the 7.5 % of AGI threshold, and the $ 72 is not income to you that needs to be reported on Form 1040.

If your employer permits your family to be covered under its health insurance plan (for a cost, of course), check whether you are allowed to pay for the insurance with pre-tax dollars.

An HSA offers potential triple tax benefits.2 Your contributions can be made with pretax dollars so you reduce your current taxable income; earnings on the investments in an HSA are not taxed; and withdrawals are tax free if used to pay for HSA - qualified medical and health care expenses.

If your employer has a health savings account or flex spending account program, it'll let you pay for deductibles, uncovered dental expenses and prescription drug co-pays with pre-tax dollars, saving you more money.

The Health Savings Account (HSA) allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for current or future qualified medical expenses, similar to flex - spending accounts.

Think about ways you can stretch your budget to put aside a few more dollars to pay for health care expenses this year and in the future.

Any portion of the health insurance premiums withheld from your pay reduces your taxable wages, effectively giving you a tax deduction from the first dollar expended.

Your HSA dollars can be used to help pay the health insurance deductible and qualified medical expenses, including those not covered by the health insurance, like dental and vision care.