Are HSA Rules Changing?? Call Your Congress(wo)man

Well if you have a high deductible health plan and you are reading this post, you are not alone in the head scratching department.  And if you are like me you here all these little sound bites; like the possibility of HSAs being made illegal, or restrictions being placed on contributions, or diminimized tax treatment of HSAs, or who knows what else, may be making you a bit nutty too.   Shoot, make up your own stress inducing limitation on HSAs and there’s a chance somebody somewhere in Congress who does not believe you can or should have the right to manage your own health care has given it some thought. 

I’m not going to speculate here about how HDHPs and HSAs are going to be impacted by the congressional hairball being coughed up in Washington at this very moment, but rather to urge you to stand up for yourself and your family’s right not to have several $ trillion spent on your behalf in the name of what the United States Government believes is good for your health.

I wrote the headline for this article this morning with the intent to come back to it this afternoon and draft the post.  As luck would happen, in between, I took a bike ride around my basement and heard Mike Gallagher mention a way through which those who want to protect their rights regarding health care can contact their congressmen and congresswomen.  As the headline suggests, I would advocate a call to your elected representatives in Washington, but if you are really in a hurry, you can go through “Free Our Health Care Now” and send email letters to your Senators and Representatives in about 2 minutes by clicking on the link above.  What I loved about it was that it pulled my Senators’ and Representative’s email addresses for me so I didn’t have to look them up.  And as a bonus for the exceptionally lazy (that would be me) it even drafted a letter to my congressmen that I could then either accept or edit any way I wanted.  Total flippin’ no brainer.

Hey, it doesn’t matter if you call or write.  What matters is that you call or write.  Use your voice today!