Obamacare ends volunteer services, basically, if the IRS rules that they are businesses with more than 50 employees as many expect them to do. 
It’s something that those who fought so hard to save the Springfield (Pa) Ambulance Corps should realize.
The fights not over though. A bill has been introduce in Congress — The Protect Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act (H.R. 3685) — that would exempt volunteer services from the requirement. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa) is leading the charge in the Senate. The Pennsylvania House unanimously passed a resolution (HR 584) sponsored by Gordon Denlinger (R-99) endorsing the federal action.
Still, why should we have to walk on pins and needles to fight to keep our standard of living from giving way to hopeless change? Didn’t anybody read Obamacare before they passed it? Oh yeah, sorry.
State Rep Jim Cox (R-129) note that 71 percent of fire departments in the nation are staffed by volunteers.
“In Pennsylvania, that number jumps to 97 percent,” he says.