Thursday.....
Aug. 19th, 2010 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiberaddictand FOGGY this AM. Y'all don't understand. This is AUGUST. And Texas. It's 100+ (NOT including the heat index, which makes me depressed, so we'll just go by the thermometer reading), it's DRY, and....we had a foggy morning. Weirdness. Welcome, but weirdness.
We've been told by 2 CPA's that the new "health bill" has something in it that will require your company to give you a 1099 on the portion of your health insurance that they pay, starting in 2011. (Some folks argue about this, saying no, it doesn't say that...but we've heard it from 2 separate sources, at least 1 of whom has read the damn bill, so...) This doesn't sound too bad, at first....but y'know what? 1099's are for INCOME. Meaning...you're going to be taxed on your health insurance.
Let's see.....I'm one of the "lucky" ones that has 100% of premiums paid by my company (for me AND my kids). That's $3,000/month (we just got the renewal notices....it's going up.) For $3K/month, I get crappy coverage - yes, we have a co-pay ($20/doc; $100/ER), we have a deductible ($750/person; $2,400/family) AND we have to pay 20% on top of that. Prescriptions are tiered - and most of the "common" drugs are in the $50 bracket. Oh, and we have to use THEIR doctors, or they only pay 20%.
So...now I'm gonna be taxed on the $3K/month.....or $36,000/year. Ummm.....I can't do that. No way, no how can I pay taxes on an "extra" $36K year - in fact, that's MORE THAN I MAKE PER YEAR.
How is this helping people, again? :bangs head:
I'm lucky - we're on SG's coverage as well, at $500/month (and MUCH better coverage. His company has Thousands of employees; mine has 2. Hence the difference!). His company only pays HIS portion, so the tax consequences won't be that astronomical. Still.....we have to come up with the tax $$ to cover the "raise". :rolls eyes:
Not much else to report...tonight is "date" night. We'll see how it goes....
We've been told by 2 CPA's that the new "health bill" has something in it that will require your company to give you a 1099 on the portion of your health insurance that they pay, starting in 2011. (Some folks argue about this, saying no, it doesn't say that...but we've heard it from 2 separate sources, at least 1 of whom has read the damn bill, so...) This doesn't sound too bad, at first....but y'know what? 1099's are for INCOME. Meaning...you're going to be taxed on your health insurance.
Let's see.....I'm one of the "lucky" ones that has 100% of premiums paid by my company (for me AND my kids). That's $3,000/month (we just got the renewal notices....it's going up.) For $3K/month, I get crappy coverage - yes, we have a co-pay ($20/doc; $100/ER), we have a deductible ($750/person; $2,400/family) AND we have to pay 20% on top of that. Prescriptions are tiered - and most of the "common" drugs are in the $50 bracket. Oh, and we have to use THEIR doctors, or they only pay 20%.
So...now I'm gonna be taxed on the $3K/month.....or $36,000/year. Ummm.....I can't do that. No way, no how can I pay taxes on an "extra" $36K year - in fact, that's MORE THAN I MAKE PER YEAR.
How is this helping people, again? :bangs head:
I'm lucky - we're on SG's coverage as well, at $500/month (and MUCH better coverage. His company has Thousands of employees; mine has 2. Hence the difference!). His company only pays HIS portion, so the tax consequences won't be that astronomical. Still.....we have to come up with the tax $$ to cover the "raise". :rolls eyes:
Not much else to report...tonight is "date" night. We'll see how it goes....
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Date: 2010-08-19 02:08 pm (UTC)I work in health care and there's a lot of feeling that this bill won't help deal with the very real problems that we have.
I also stay as far away from doctors as I can. Unless I'm bleeding or broken or something. I figure I can take better care of myself without their nasty drugs and side effects.
BTW -- total change of topic. Have you considered making goat butter? A friend of mine had some at the weekend, and was raving about how wonderful it was.
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Date: 2010-08-19 02:15 pm (UTC)Butter - Yes! We haven't made any yet - we can't get the cream separator to, well, separate the cream. Yet. I have skimmed off a jar full (16 0z pasta sauce jar), and frozen it - soon as we get a little more we're going to try the churn.
The goal is to make/grow all of our food that we can....that way we know what's in it.