Health Care Spending Account. An arrangement through which you may direct a portion of your salary-before-tax-to your health care spending account to pay for certain eligible medical or dental expenses. For more information on this plan see http://benefitsu.stanford.edu/flexible/fsa/l3_fsa.html.

(high-cost serving area) refers to those areas where the cost of providing telephone service is so high that the CRTC has kept the price below cost, so as to maintain affordability, and has set up a subsidy mechanism to compensate service providers for the cap on their prices.