IRS Union Employees are not happy that HR 1780 would require ALL Federal employees to participate in the Obamacare program they will be enforcing. They want to be exempt.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

IRS Union Employees are not happy that HR 1780 would require ALL Federal employees to participate in the Obamacare program they will be enforcing. They want to be exempt.

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IRS Employees' Union Urges Members to Oppose Obamacare--For Themselves

July 26, 2013 - 1:12 PM

NTEU members (AP photo)

(CNSNews.com) – The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents Internal Revenue Service employees, is urging its members to oppose legislation that would force federal employees off their government healthcare plans and onto the state and national healthcare exchanges established under Obamacare.
Members of Congress and their staffers are already required to participate in the exchanges, which will go into effect next October 1st under the Affordable Care Act.
However, a bill (HR 1780) introduced in April by Rep. David Camp (R–Mich.) would extend that requirement to all federal employees, an idea that does not sit well with the union.
So NTEU is strongly urging its members – including the Internal Revenue Service agents tasked with implementing Obamacare – to oppose Camp’s legislation, which would compel them to personally participate in the same healthcare program they will be enforcing.
On the NTEU website, union members are urged to email their congressman and senators, asking them to oppose H.R.1780. NTEU provides a sample letter that members can simply sign and send, or rewrite it as they wish:

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Sen. Sessions: We Should Do Everything We Can to Undo Obamacare

July 26, 2013 - 10:23 AM

By Curtis Houck

(CNSNews.com) - Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said that members of Congress must do everything in their power to block the individual mandate in President Obama's signature health care law from going into effect in 2014.
On Capitol Hill Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked Sessions: "Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants the upcoming continuing resolution (CR) to include language that prohibits funding for the individual mandate in Obamacare because the [similar] mandate for big corporations has already been postponed. Do you agree with Senator Lee and do you think funding for the individual mandate should be halted?"
"We should do everything that we can to block that... (to) undo Obamacare,” Sessions responded.
Lee has spent the last two weeks stating that he will refuse to vote for any continuing resolution that continues to fund the federal government past September 30th if it includes funding for the individual mandate component of Obamacare.
“The remedy is for Congress to refuse to fund the implementation of the program that the president insists is not ready to be implemented,” said Lee in an interview with CNSNews.com on July 11.
On July 2, the Obama administration announced that the section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide health insurance to employees would be postponed a year until 2015. But the individual mandate is still slated to go into effect in 2014.
“Right now, this is the last stop before Obamacare fully kicks in on Jan. 1 of next year, for us to refuse to fund it." Lee told FOX News Monday.

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