"flipper" wrote in message
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Of course you do. Mommy government wouldn't screw you, right?

In general, no, but the country is so dysfunctional today that even reasonable
people will do things like, oh, say, vote on a bill despite not having read or
received summaries of what's in all 2400 pages of it. Or even if they have,
understanding that few bills are 100% agreeable and sometimes it's best to
vote for those that are, say, "mostly" good.

'Free' healthcare has to be paid for, you know, and the cap alone is
expected to raise $13 billion

Well, cutting back HSA benefits is a dishonest way to go about doing it.

And so it was written that with the stroke of a pen the Lord Congress
almighty and their right hand regulator giveth and taketh away all
things.

The HSA bit here seems like something that should be easy for Republicans to
fix, though -- with a very simple bill that just reverts HSAs to pre-Obamacare
terms and nothing more, what Democrat would stand there and claim that, no,
it's better if you can't save as much for yourself? Even the viable argument
of, "I won't vote for it unless there's money to pay for the shortfall doing
so will create" doesn't usually pass muster with the voters.

---Joel