[extropy-chat] Health data

[Brian Atkins]

MB wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure there are various methods you and your employer can use to
>> hold
>> back a chunk of your earnings pre-tax and use to reimburse you tax free
>> for your
>> health expenses. You just need to investigate this with their help.
>>
> 
> If you are referring to Health Care Savings Accounts, indeed they do
> exist. And they are *very* specific about what kind of money is involved,
> what kind of insurance you must already possess, and what your employer
> can and must do. I didn't fit. :(
> 

Not quite sure what you want then - HSAs are usually a high deductible generally 
low cost premium type of insurance, which you say you want, and the money you 
put into them is portable from employer to employer and can usually be spent on 
most kinds of health spending tax free.

But there also are things called Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) and 
also FSAs I think, and probably other things I've never heard of. Get googling.
-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/