# Longer edit window, please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longer-edit-window-please/923780>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [October 24, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longer-edit-window-please/923780 "2020-10-24T17:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longer-edit-window-please/923780/3 "2020-10-24T18:13:39Z")

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We all do that.

For an accidental early submit, just clean up the typos as best you can, scrape out the final half-finished paragraph and save that edit. Then make a second post immediately afterwards labeled “Late Add:”.

Here’s one of those double-posts I had to do this very morning:

> [@Should I get an HSA (Health Savings Account)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-get-an-hsa-health-savings-account/923700/13):
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> You might want to look very closely at the rest of the details between both plans. e.g. both an HDHP and a regular plan will have a deductible up to which they pay zero. Then they’ll have another number up to which they’ll pay e.g. 80% and you pay 20%. Then there’s finally a number called out-of-pocket maximum above which they pick up 100%. Your true worst case exposure is the OOP max. For each of you. Plus some co-pays. And that’s true for both HDHP and non-HDHP plans. Compare those num…

> [@Should I get an HSA (Health Savings Account)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-get-an-hsa-health-savings-account/923700/14):
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> Late add: The bottom line being the true worst case isn’t that different between our plans. But for the medium-good case the HDHP may be the more expensive when your yearly total outlay ends up close to the deductible, either just over or just under. But that’s a smaller absolute number and may be easier to withstand if you have an unlucky year.

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