Obamacare was about to force towns to buy health insurance for *volunteer firefighters*

When is a volunteer considered an "employee?"

When that decision is made by someone in the federal government. 

Lots of small towns that can't afford full-time fire departments have volunteer firefighters.  But because they sometimes get gym memberships or modest retirement pay or similar perks, the feds have "deemed" them employees.

And you can guess what's coming next, right?  Sure you can:  The f'n federal gummint was gonna require these thousands of volunteer outfits to provide health insurance for their so-called "employees," due to the carefully-thought-out provisions of Obamacare.

Representatives of the little towns were stunned:  The whole point of a "volunteer" force is that they're NOT employees, you dumb bastards.  But Duh Won, he don' say nuffin'.

Now, finally, the Treasury Department has seen the light and won't demand that towns purchase health insurance for their volunteer firefighters.

Whew.