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Peter Berg, who lost his vision to diabetes In his 20s, works at his office in v.iuuaeo, using suuware ineu reaus uunwsni mm. Technology lends a hand Disablities act update could include variety of changes ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Ahead-ache awaits people who use those tax-free health spending accounts to pay for over-the-counter drugstore remedies. Starting next year, you'll need a prescription for the drugs to qualify. The change in Flexible Spending Accounts is part of the new health care law, and doctors are bracing for patient confusion and annoyance. "A huge hassle," predicts Dr.

Roland Goertz, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Flexible spending accounts, or FSAs, are pretax dollars that workers can set aside through their employers to pay out-of-pocket health care costs. That includes insurance copays and deductibles, treatments that an insurance plan may not cover, eyeglasses, dental work and, yes, nonprescription medications. But the new health care law says over-the-counter drugs qualify for reimbursement through FSAs starting Jan. 1 only if the patient has a doctor's prescription.

The only exception is for insulin bought without a Need to know Things to consider In planning for over-the-counter purchases: The estimated 35 million FSA users must spend all their set-aside money each year or lose it. According to the Internal Revenue Service, the prescription requirement is only for OTC medications, not other non-drug health supplies such as contact lens solutions, bandages, crutches and blood-sugar test kits. These will merely require a receipt for reimbursement, just like today. Next year, the health care law also eliminates preventive service copays, such as for well-child visits. Most affected by OTC rule will be daily users of those drugs like people who treat arthritis with ibuprofen.

They will have to calculate if any extra doctor visits offset the pretax savings. Russians succeed in walk in space BY JAMES DEAN FLORIDA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL Two Russian cosmonauts completed a 6 'i-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Monday that went smoothly until trouble with a final task to relocate aTV camera. Working outside the station's Russian segment, Fyo-dor Yurchikhin and Oleg' Skripochka installed a work station and tethers to help future spacewalkers, took samples from an oxygen generation system's vents, retrieved a robotic experiment and installed a materials experiment. Yurchikhin struggled to relocate a TV camera on the Rassvet docking module because insulation was in the way. "Nobody's going to die because of a Russian mission controller said, encouraging Yurchikhin to call it a day and return to the Pirs airlock.

"Job security. Now we have a clear understanding of what is going to be done next." The cosmonauts headed back to the airlock with the camera. The spacewalk ended at 4:22 p.m. with an official elapsed time of six hours and 27 minutes about 30 minutes longer than planned. It was Skripochka's first spacewalk and the fifth for Yurchikhin.

It was the 133rd Russian spacewalk, and the 151st overall supporting station assembly and maintenance, which total 950 hours, 51 minutes. During the spacewalk, fellow station residents and Expedition 25 crew members Scott Kelly and Alexander Kaleri were staged inside a Soyuz lifeboat in case of an emergency, because their who lost his vision to diabetes in his 20s. Using software that reads content to him, he can surf websites for work, check Facebook and pay his bills online. But he hit a wall while trying to set up an account on a popular website that allows electronic money transfers. "You needed to click on something, and it wasn't identifiable to the screen reader," said Berg, who provides technical assistance about the ADA.

The effort to update the lawbegins Thursday witha Justice Department hearing in Chicago. Additional hearings are scheduled for Dec. 16 in Washington and Jan. 1 0 in San Francisco. cans with Disabilities Act.

Twenty years after the law was adopted, the government wants to move the regulations beyond wheelchair ramps and accessible elevators into cyberspace and personal technology. The updated regulations could mean sweeping changes across many industries and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. An estimated 40 million blind and deaf Americans stand to reap the biggest benefits, including 43-year-old Peter Berg, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO Emergency call centers could be equipped to communicate by text message. Websites might need to be programmed to speak to blind users. Movie theaters might have to install technology to allow the deaf to read captions on small screens mounted at their seats.

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