In his first Capitol Hill appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court’s
June ruling on the health care reform law, Internal Revenue Service
Commissioner Doug Shulman defended his workforce and its preparations
for implementing the Affordable Care Act against angry Republican
charges that the IRS illegally reinterpreted the law, took on too large a
task, and risked compromising taxpayer privacy.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called the Thursday hearing to “address concerns about the Big Brother process” created through the implementation of “Obamacare,” which “is all about taxes,” he said. Issa said he wanted to explore whether the IRS is equipped for the “massive staffing and technology ramp-ups” that will be required to deliver satisfactory service and to examine “the legality of rules it will enforce and questions about the sacrosanct privacy of personal information once held only by the IRS but now shared with state exchanges,” he said.
Republican lawmakers and two witnesses offered harsh criticisms of a recent IRS rule interpreting a complex section of the 2010 Affordable Care Act to mean that the federal government could deliver the law’s premium tax credits to individuals even in states that declined to set up a health insurance exchange and allowed the federal government to step in. As drafted, the law appears contradictory on this question.
Read more: http://nationaljournal.com/healthcare/irs-chief-defends-implementation-of-health-care-law-20120802
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called the Thursday hearing to “address concerns about the Big Brother process” created through the implementation of “Obamacare,” which “is all about taxes,” he said. Issa said he wanted to explore whether the IRS is equipped for the “massive staffing and technology ramp-ups” that will be required to deliver satisfactory service and to examine “the legality of rules it will enforce and questions about the sacrosanct privacy of personal information once held only by the IRS but now shared with state exchanges,” he said.
Republican lawmakers and two witnesses offered harsh criticisms of a recent IRS rule interpreting a complex section of the 2010 Affordable Care Act to mean that the federal government could deliver the law’s premium tax credits to individuals even in states that declined to set up a health insurance exchange and allowed the federal government to step in. As drafted, the law appears contradictory on this question.
Read more: http://nationaljournal.com/healthcare/irs-chief-defends-implementation-of-health-care-law-20120802
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