The IRS and Your Health

 

Contributor &  author:  Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director of  Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,    (see Dr. Orient’s bio at the bottom of this release)

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As Americans watch  congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, they should ask  themselves what this enormously powerful, corrupt, politically motivated agency  might do with its new job of administering ObamaCare….. 

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By Author-Contributor Jane M.  Orient, M.D., http://www.drjaneorient.com/credentials.php

As Americans watch congressional  hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, they should ask themselves what this  enormously powerful, corrupt, politically motivated agency might do with its new  job of administering ObamaCare.

We have heard testimony from  those whose tax exemption was delayed or denied, or who underwent abusive  audits, or faced seizure of their accumulated earnings, apparently because  someone viewed them as opponents to the Powers.

The people who are testifying  are obviously still alive.

What if this agency had the  power to control access to medical care?

Of course, it will not have this  power under ObamaCare. Not exactly. These are the powers that it will  have:

The IRS will decide whether you  get a subsidy to buy the increasingly expensive health coverage mandated under  the law. Since that coverage could cost a third of your income, its  “affordability” obviously depends on whether other taxpayers have to help pay  for it. And by the way, the subsidy doesn’t go to you—it goes to the Plan. To  qualify, the Plan has to please the Administration. It has to allocate enough  for politically correct “prevention” (such as abortions) and not too much to  services that lead to “disparity” (such as hip fractures in the  elderly).

The IRS will determine which  insurers will survive. A Plan that is not eligible for subsidies is likely to  die for want of enough customers. The Administration has a record of picking  winners (its cronies) and losers (its opponents).

The IRS will influence the  chances that your job will survive. Your employer may be hit with ruinous fines  for not having benefits that qualify or for having workers who apply for  subsidies on the Exchange. As the rules are impossibly complex, government  agencies have a lot of discretion, which can be used to reward and to  punish.