IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare

weeklystandard.com ^ | 8/1/13 | DANIEL HALPER

[ColdOne]

IRS chief Daniel Werfel says he wants to keep his health care plan, not switch to Obamacare:

"Mr. Werfel, last week your employees who are a member of the National Treasury Employee's Union sent a form letter for union members to send in to ask they be exempt from the exchanges," a congressman asked. "Why are your employees trying to exempt themselves from the very law that you're tasked to enforce?"

"I don't want to speak for the NTEU, but I'll offer a perspective as a federal employee myself and a federal employee at the IRS," said the IRS chief. "And that is, we have right now as employees of the government, of the IRS, affordable health care coverage. I think the ACA was designed to provide an

[Venturer]

Not only a hypocrite, but an idiot.

The affordable coverage he has now will be made to disappear. That is the plan. Obama is going to close down all other Insurance companies and plans and put everyone except himself and maybe Congress on Obamacare.

[Servant of the Cross]

Thanks for the summary. This is good stuff. I did not hear the show.

Newt ping. If only .....

[kevao]

I think if you're an individual who is satisfied with your health care coverage, you're probably in a better position to stick with that coverage than go through the change of moving into a different environment and going through that process.

This ignorant fool is under the delusion that everyone has that choice. No clue as to how the law incentivizes business to drop their plans and/or reclassify employees from full- to part-time. And his agency is going to be the enforcer?

[The Great RJ]

Too freaking bad... let Congress and the executive branch get the same rotten deal as the rest of us. I have long though we need a Constutional amendment that Congress and the Executive branch that prohibits them from being exempted from any law.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Comment #1 self deleted to save the mods the trouble

I know how you feel.

However, there are at least two ways to look at this as I would see it. Harness this focused outrage (yes, even in Caesar's own palace) to help push this boondoggle over once and for all, or keep on scoffing and see nothing happen because we're paralyzed in hatred.

[BluH2o]

NTEU the Teamster union all wanting to bail on Obamacare, at the very least granted an exemption ... now top management at the IRS want out as well. The very entity tasked, as the article points out, with enforcing Obamacare. The Nancy Pelosi Harry Reid types have to know in their hearts this ill conceived bucket of crap called Obamacare isn't going to fly ... no way.

[Servant of the Cross]

Rules for thee but not for me. This is the theme of the corrupt 0bama administration. And the injustice of their selective enforcement of the law is UNCONSTITUTONAL under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment

[RedMDer]

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[bobo1]

I think every law congress passes should go through a testing phase.

Every politician in Washington should be required to live there for five years and have to live under their own laws for five years before they are applied to the public.

Including federal workers.

Proper way to test whether they work or not.

[Whenifhow]

The video below is on the Senate floor, where all the reasons are explained why Obamacare should not be funded.

47 Minutes
Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Marco Rubio Engage in a Colloquy on Defunding Obamacare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MM01NrC7bc

[LucyT]

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IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare

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[Dick Bachert]

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[I want the USA back]

The ruling elite wants a cushy life, courtesy of the hard-working producers. It wants special privileges. It wants exemptions from the laws that it makes for the common folk.

[Slings and Arrows]

Well Danny, yesterday you were a useful idiot. Today you’re just an idiot.

[Soul of the South]

“Democrats are Law-Less
Republicans are Ball-Less.’

I’m convinced Republicans are compromised. When they come to Washington they fall to sex, money, or promises of power. Obama has the goods on all of them, particularly the leadership, and is controlling them through implicit threats to expose. We might all be surprised how many of our Christian values GOP representatives have enjoyed a Monica moment or have enriched themselves through an insider land deal or stock tip.

[ArrogantBustard]

GFY, Werfel.

[topspinr]

Careful what you wish for.

Suppose they pass a law to pay each one of them 1, 2 or more million dollars a year for five years. Yeah that’s the ticket.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for posting Newt's take/support on defunding 0Care. What Sen Lee and Sen Cruz are proposing is our greatest chance for defunding 0Care.

Their petition is garnering more signatures, every day.

www.dontfundobamacare.com

[unixfox]

Well Mr Werfel, you voted for it, now eat it!