'A public safety disaster': Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close

Daily Mail ^ | Dec 09 2013 | DAVID MARTOSKO,

[MeshugeMikey]

The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines The IRS says volunteer firefighters are 'employees,' even though the Department of Labor says they're 'volunteers' Out of more than 1 million fire departments in the U.S., 87 per cent are staffed entirely or mostly by life-saving volunteers Members of Congress are weighing in, but the Obama administration hasn't taken any action yet to carve out a fire-fighting exception

[CatOwner]

Conservatives don’t want to do that. They want to solve the problems of this country with words. Idiots, everyone of them.

[MeshugeMikey]

IF NEWS OF THIS doesnt wake people up nothing will.

yes its up to US to spread the news...at every opportunity.

[21twelve]

“I suppose the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and other volunteer systems will also be required to provide Obamacare.”

There was a thread last week(?) about how charity hospitals will be fined for giving care to those who can’t pay (St. Judes, etc.). I imagine that any type of care that the Salvation Army or Red Cross supplies that might be determined to be “health” care would also be fined.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well this is Wickardly wickedness to the Nth degree. This isn’t just making health care have a higher price, it is decimating it.

[21twelve]

BTW, seems like an appropriate thread, when talking about obamacare to shout

“BURN BABY BURN”!

[jetson]

How is it possible that a girlyman Kenyan has gotten things to this point?

[MeshugeMikey]

thus fare Ie dound no references to other volunteer oganizations

I did however just find this !

http://www.firenews.net/10019/fire-chief-discusses-impact-of-obamacare-on-volunteer-fds-video/

[MeshugeMikey]

hes just the face on the the placards.....the empty suit who’s told what to do by the man behind the curtain

hes the presumptive queen of one world communism....

[MeshugeMikey]

I take umbrage at that

I AM a Conservative..and am willing to hitchhike to DC is necessary to take part in a HUGE outpouring of public OUTRAGE!

[SERKIT]

The fire unions LOVE this idea!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Yep, the only solution is single payor government health care. Obama’s plan is working perfectly.

[Sequoyah101]

A billion? Hell, how about at least a TRILLION? I don’t see much in the way of shovel ready jobs to show for that. I sure sure a lot of brand spanking new high dollar cars, mostly black in color, with matching drivers show up in 2009.

Go figure.

[Gritty]

If you like your home in one uncharred piece you can keep it. Period.

[MeshugeMikey]

if only unka nelson were alive to see this come to fruition ....

[MeshugeMikey]

ahaha INDEED

[RetiredTexasVet]

Guess they will have to form a union or become Muslims to get a by.

[jocon307]

This doesn’t make any sense to me. I don’t know why the IRS says a volunteer is an employee. And I have to imagine that most of those folks already have insurance elsewhere, like they have salaries elsewhere, because, you know, they’re volunteers.

[MeshugeMikey]

imagine a bunch of volunteer firefighters being forced to adopt screaming allihu ackbar...as they head out towarda a balzing inferno

nah never happen as much as The Great Leader would like that.

[MeshugeMikey]

the irs is currently being run by the regime thus all bets on their displaying any common sense is off.

[bobby.223]

Agree 100%. There will be a full on NWO planned and organized meltdown shortly. When the people who have been kicked off their healthcare plans, their children, those who think they and their families are signed up with the ACA and really aren’t finally ‘get it’, need care for themselves and kids, (especially their kids), and CAN’T get it...... all hell is gonna break lose. Timed with the collapse of the dollar, Martial Law is set to go and it is game over.