Obama adviser Jonathan Gruber has estimated that, by 2016, the cost of individual-market health insurance under Obamacare, relative to what it would have been under prior law, will increase by an averageof 19 percent in Colorado, 29 percent in Minnesota, and 30 percent in Wisconsin.
Now he and his ally in passing the law, Senator Charles Grassley, hope to expand it to tax fraud. (Under a different law, the IRS already pays tipsters an average 2.74% of amounts recovered.) Estranged ex-spouses, fired employees and business rivals would get a new way to cash in or exact revenge--and Phillips would get more business.