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IRS will police health care

POSTED: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 5:51pm
UPDATED: Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 3:35am
TYLER-The Internal Revenue Service will be the government's chief enforcer for health care reform. They'll be responsible for watching both business and individuals to make sure they have the insurance coverage the government requires. But the questions is, will the IRS really be able to enforce this?
According to the new bill, the purpose of the mandates is to regulate economic and financial decisions about how and when health care is paid for, and when health insurance is bought. But many worry if the IRS is up for the challenge.
In 2014, every person and most businesses will be required to certify on their tax returns if they have bought the level of insurance they're required to have. If not, then that person or business will have to pay a separate tax to the IRS. For individuals it could be up to $750 a person or $2,250 a household. And for a business, $750 per uncovered employee.
To make this work, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the IRS will need $10 billion in additional funds, funds which were not made available under the health reform bill.
Republicans in the House Ways and Means Committee estimated that this $10 billion could go to fund an additional 17,000 new IRS agents and other personnel to monitor and enforce the new mandates.
Some believe this will be tough to enforce because of how complicated the bill is.
"They're going to have to beer the branch up in order to enforce it," Peter Milne of Healy, Milne & Associates. "It will actually be cheaper to pay the fines than it will be to pay the premiums."
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HMMMM...THE WAY THE DEMOCRATS ALWAYS ACT IS THAT THEY ARE HERE TO SAVE THE DAY...LET'S SEE NOW.....MORE MONEY GOING OUT OF MY POCKET TO PAY FOR SOME LOWLIFE TO HAVE INSURANCE AFTER HE SAYS HE IS IN THE POOR RANGE....THEREFORE HE GETS LAZIER,I GET MORE BROKE....CAN'T SEEM TO SEE THAT DEMOCRATIC WINDFALL THAT THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO PAINT A PICTURE OF...YEAH OBAMA AND HIS REGIME...THE EASY LIFE....THEY NEED TO WAKE UP !!!! THE DEMS ALWAYS CLAIM THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE BETTER WHEN DEMS RULE...WELL...IT'S BEEN WAY WORSE SO FAR AND THE FUTURE IS SO BRIGHT... I GOTTA WEAR SHADES....OH WAIT...THAT IS THE LIGHT FROM THE FIRES OF HELL THAT I CAN SEE FROM ATOP THIS SNOWBALL OF A COUNTRY GOING DOWNHILL!!!
i like were they are going to beer the branch up.
This is what Tyranny looks like.
Well, you on the left wanted your police state. Now you have it. More cost for the health care bill that was not accounted for in the cost estimates. Oh, that's right, it's only Republicans that lie to us. It isn't called lying when Democrats do it. It's called for our own good or the ends justify the means.












