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NY Times
ROBERT PEAR
August 2, 2013
House Votes to Bar I.R.S. Action on Health Law
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WASHINGTON — In its last action before a five-week summer recess,
the House took another jab at President Obama’s health care law on Friday,
[color="DarkRed"]voting to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service
from enforcing or carrying out any provision of the law.[/COLOR
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Under the law, the I.R.S. will play a key role. It will provide tax credits
to low- and moderate-income people to help them buy private insurance.
It can impose penalties on people who go without insurance and on larger employers
that fail to offer coverage to full-time employees.<snip>
But Representative Sander M. Levin of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, said,
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“Neither the I.R.S. nor the Department of Health and Human Services will have access to medical records
or other personal history, no access whatsoever.”
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Mr. Levin said that Republicans, in their zeal to undo the health care overhaul, were neglecting other important issues.
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“This bill is nothing more than a continuation of the Republicans’ blind obsession
with repealing the Affordable Care Act,” Mr. Levin said. “Their mission is to destroy, not implement, health care reform.”
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