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IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My 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 option or an alternative for individuals that do not.
And all else being equal, 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.
So I think for a federal employee, I think more likely, and I would -- can speak for myself, I would prefer to stay with the current policy that I'm pleased with rather than go through a change if I don't need to go through that change."
UPDATE: Texas senator John Cornyn responds:
Count the head of the IRS among the growing list of folks that includes Big Labor and the laws chief architect who are deeply skeptical of the Presidents signature achievement and dont want any part of it.
IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare | The Weekly Standard
Do you people understand that The Affordable Care Act is NOW being rejected by the group (IRS!)...that WANTS YOU to pay for it and they will collect the money?
AND NONE of this had to happen!
If someone would just count the real NUMBER of people that are insured and real number that WANT insurance!
RIGHT NOW.. according to PolitiFact.org nearly 331 million people are covered!
Right now "Employers provide most of the insurance in this country. About 60 percent of everyone under 65 is covered through either a large-group or small-group plan, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute, an independent think tank. Statistically, if Julie has insurance today, its most likely in one of those markets and the ad should not assume that her rates will rise.
About 22 percent of people under 65 are with a government program, either Medicaid or a childrens program, S-CHIP. The individual market represents the smallest slice of people with insurance, about 7 percent."
"About 60 percent of everyone under 65 is covered....a large-group or small-group
About 22 percent of people under 65 are with a government program,
about 7 percent....individual market...."
PolitiFact | AFP ad says premiums will rise under Obamacare
Now that adds up to if my simple arithmetic is correct, 89% of ALL AMERICANS...Right?
Medicare states in the below on Page 8..
"In 2011, Medicare covered 40.4 million aged 65 and older," which is 12.7% of current
known USA population below.
http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statist...eports/ReportsTrustFunds/downloads/tr2012.pdf
When you multiple 89% (YOUR % of people covered without Medicare...) times 316,295,540 people
You get 281,503,030 people covered under everything ......
BUT Medicare and Tricare.
source:Population Clock
"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 option or an alternative for individuals that do not.
And all else being equal, 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.
So I think for a federal employee, I think more likely, and I would -- can speak for myself, I would prefer to stay with the current policy that I'm pleased with rather than go through a change if I don't need to go through that change."
UPDATE: Texas senator John Cornyn responds:
Count the head of the IRS among the growing list of folks that includes Big Labor and the laws chief architect who are deeply skeptical of the Presidents signature achievement and dont want any part of it.
IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare | The Weekly Standard
Do you people understand that The Affordable Care Act is NOW being rejected by the group (IRS!)...that WANTS YOU to pay for it and they will collect the money?
AND NONE of this had to happen!
If someone would just count the real NUMBER of people that are insured and real number that WANT insurance!
RIGHT NOW.. according to PolitiFact.org nearly 331 million people are covered!
Right now "Employers provide most of the insurance in this country. About 60 percent of everyone under 65 is covered through either a large-group or small-group plan, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute, an independent think tank. Statistically, if Julie has insurance today, its most likely in one of those markets and the ad should not assume that her rates will rise.
About 22 percent of people under 65 are with a government program, either Medicaid or a childrens program, S-CHIP. The individual market represents the smallest slice of people with insurance, about 7 percent."
"About 60 percent of everyone under 65 is covered....a large-group or small-group
About 22 percent of people under 65 are with a government program,
about 7 percent....individual market...."
PolitiFact | AFP ad says premiums will rise under Obamacare
Now that adds up to if my simple arithmetic is correct, 89% of ALL AMERICANS...Right?
Medicare states in the below on Page 8..
"In 2011, Medicare covered 40.4 million aged 65 and older," which is 12.7% of current
known USA population below.
http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statist...eports/ReportsTrustFunds/downloads/tr2012.pdf
When you multiple 89% (YOUR % of people covered without Medicare...) times 316,295,540 people
You get 281,503,030 people covered under everything ......
BUT Medicare and Tricare.
source:Population Clock
