Health Care Reform Means More Power for the IRS
This is from a Byron York column:
Under the various proposals now on the table, the IRS would become the main agency for determining who has an “acceptable” health insurance plan; for finding and punishing those who don’t have such a plan; for subsidizing individual health insurance costs through the issuance of tax credits; and for enforcing the rules on those who attempt to opt out, abuse, or game the system. A substantial portion of H.R. 3200, the House health care bill, is devoted to amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in order to give the IRS the authority to perform these new duties.
A faceless bureaucracy would determine the insurance benefit package you would be required to have. And a faceless bureaucracy would be charged with enforcing the mandate benefit package.
When TennCare implemented limited benefit plans, something lime 98% of enrollees never exceeded their modest ($25,000) annual cap. Yet, would-be reformers want everyone to have comprehensive plans with no annual or lifetime caps on benefits. Why are they trying to mandate costly benefits more than 99% of the population do not need?
As if the IRS didn’t already have too much power!
I saw on Fox News that left wing groups are actually training goon squads on how to disrupt the town hall protestors. I wonder if biting off a finger is part of the instruction manual.
would most likely be a tax deduction for those that could prove the ‘acceptable’ coverage