In Thunder Road (the movie, not the Bruce Springsteen song) Robert Mitchum played a Kentucky moonshiner trying to evade federal agentsÑthe “revenuers” trying to collect whiskey taxes. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a comprehensive overhaul of health care signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this year, may make us all “revenuers.”

There is nothing in the new legislation that directly addresses the horse industry, but that does not mean that the bill will have no impact on how equine businesses operate. As passed, the new legislation threatens to bury everyone, horse owners included, in a mountain of paperwork