The IRS does what, again? Here I thought the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was administering "Obamacare" by setting up federal insurance excha

The 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/).