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The healthcare bill may soon be creating even more profits for the pharmaceutical companies, thanks to a change in the tax code that affects flexible spending accounts (FSA) or health savings accounts (HSA).
Consumers can use these pre-tax accounts to pay for eligible health care expenses -- expenses that used to include over-the-counter medications. Under the new healthcare bill, however, only prescribed medications will be covered. As written in Newsmax: