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IRS Chief: I Want to Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 01, 2013 06:20pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Daniel Halper |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - Weekly Standard, The |
| News Date | Friday, August 2, 2013 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "IRS chief Daniel Werfel says he wants to keep his 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." |
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