claim: "obamacare could force thousands of volunteer fire stations to cut service or close entirely!"
author: generation opportunity
evidence_1: dec 9, 2013 ... 'a public safety disaster': obamacare could force thousands of volunteer fire  departments to close ... 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 ...
evidence_2: feb 11, 2014 ... back in december, politifact readers flagged a facebook post by the  conservative group generation opportunity that said "obamacare could force  thousands of volunteer fire stations to cut service or close entirely." it turned out  there was some merit to those concerns, though they were exaggerated by ...
evidence_3: oct 11, 2017 ... generation opportunity posted an image to its facebook page in december  2013 that claimed "obamacare could force thousands of volunteer fire stations to  cut services or close entirely!" politifact rated the claim "half-true," and later  reported that final guidelines issued by the treasury department in ...
evidence_4: 'a public safety disaster': volunteer fire departments could close down unless the  government exempts them from obamacare .... featured post @ coastlineropfirescience - this is the pierce-oshkosh m1142 tfft pictured here  at the los alamitos joint forces training base fire department. this 8 wheeled  vehicle is an ...
evidence_5: dec 4, 2013 ... part of the inconsistency in pricing stems from the fact that ambulance services  are variously run by fire departments, hospitals, private companies and volunteer  groups. some services are included in insurance networks, others not. “there's a  saying that if you've seen one emergency medical system, ...