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It would be the ultimate in naiveté to believe that NSA data, already used by IRS and DEA, will not end up being used by Obamacare, in addition to any other gov
by FellowTraveler 13y ago
It would be the ultimate in naiveté to believe that NSA data, already used by IRS and DEA, will not end up being used by Obamacare, in addition to any other government agency where they deem it useful.
Don't be a fool.
In fact the IRS is what administrates Obamacare and it's already in the news that IRS was using NSA data.
- techsupporter 13y agoThe IRS does what, again? Here I thought the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was administering "Obamacare" by setting up federal insurance exchanges for states that don't do one of their own, continuing to administer Medicare and Medicaid, and certifying certain health plans. The IRS does what it always does: collects taxes due under the law, namely the increased Medicare tax and the tax-that-you-can't-go-to-jail-for-not-paying "surcharge" for not acquiring insurance under the individual mandate. In the case of the latter, the tax is automatically imposed by law and you avoid paying it by either you or your health plan sending an insurance certificate (paper or digital) to the IRS. The IRS is in no sense "running" Obamacare. That would be DHHS. If you're going to reply with the claim about the IRS needing to hire 9,000-16,000 new agents to "enforce Obamacare," there is nothing I can do to stop you and will only point out that the claim was based on partisan estimates and thoroughly debunked (http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/irs-expansion/ http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/irs-expansion/).