The Choker wrote:This is absolutely appalling! The IRS union has found out what is in Obamacare and they want to be exempt from it. These are the people who will be responsible for checking on you and arresting you if you don't comply. Now the IRS does not want to comply!
Obama/Pelosi/Reid - Tyrants!
Two weeks ago, representatives of three large labor unions fired off a harsh letter to Democratic leaders in Congress, complaining that Obamacare would “shatter…our hard-earned health benefits” and create “nightmare scenarios” for their members. Today, we learn that the National Treasury Employees Union—the union that includes employees of the Internal Revenue Service—is asking its members to write letters to their Congressmen, stating that they are “very concerned” about legislative efforts requiring IRS and Treasury employees to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapotheca ... exchanges/
Choker,
There is nothing personal about the fact that I comment on many of your Obamacare posts. I've never started an OT Obamacare post on this forum, not ever, but I cannot resist commenting when I think someone has his facts wrong. It's the post that draws my interest, not the poster.
You obviously don't understand Obamacare, despite all the time that has passed, or you wouldn't post what you did about the IRS employees. No one who gets normal health insurance through an employer is required to -- or even permitted to -- sign up for coverage through the insurance exchanges. That includes federal employees.* Obamacare is about catching the people who fall through the cracks now. What the Treasury employees are concerned about is a Republican bill to abolish health insurance for federal employees and require all federal employees to switch to buying their own coverage on the exchanges. The article you quote from makes that clear; I don't know how you missed it.
In April, [Rep. Dave] Camp [(R., Mich.)] introduced legislation to put all federal employees on the exchanges, in response to [false] reports that members of Congress and their staff were seeking an exemption from the provision in Obamacare that requires them to enroll in the exchanges. [The "false" is my editorial comment.]
You can read the
letter itself to see that it is the Camp bill they don't like. Obviously employees who are covered by an employer plan as a benefit of employment would not like to be kicked out and have to pay for coverage themselves. I wouldn't like it either. I'm happy on my employer's plan, and I'll still be happy a year from now. But I'm grateful that now I actually have an option if I should lose my job or wish to strike out on my own before I'm old enough for Medicare. Before Obamacare, there was no place for overweight 60-year-olds who've had cancer twice. It's what Cowfish should look to if she decides to go freelance.
*Except members of Congress and their staff members, who are required to buy their coverage on the exchanges. Reports that Congress was trying to change this were complete discredited months ago.
