Wow, It Never Quits, Does It? One Daily Surprise After Another -- Now It's The Nation's Volunteer Fire Departments That Could Be Thrown Under The Bus

My hunch is the administration will sort this one out fairly soon, once they get all the facts, but it again reveals how little we know about the Obamacare bill. Just as Nancy said: we will know all about it once it becomes law.

As a reminder, this is one of the surprises this bill contained, and no one talks about it any more: ObamaCare officially defines the American work week at 30+ hours. Now we have another surprise.

The DailyMail, which seems to know Obamacare better than most other media outlets is reporting:

• 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 volunteers 
• members of Congress are weighing in, but the Obama administration hasn't taken any action yet to carve out a fire-fighting exception 

The president will probably make his decision after he decides on the fate of the Keystone XL. LOL. 

The article continues:

The U.S. Department of Labor takes the term 'volunteer' literally, but the IRS says volunteer firefighters are technically employees if they're on the job more than 30 hours per week, making them subject to Obamacare's employee-mandate rules. 

And it will be the IRS, not the Department of Labor that enforces Obamacare.