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originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: introvert
Were they put in jail?
How many homeless and poor were put in jail for not paying their dues?
I don't know, I didn't say anything about jail...The IRS can seize any part or all of your refund in order to satisfy your obligation, so if you are poor and you do not sign up and do not pay you can lose income tax return or credit.
originally posted by: introvert
How many were imprisoned?
Lol why do you keep asking that when I said I don't know...I didn't say anything about jail...lol dude....
I do know my healthcare cost went up about 5 times... I also know Obamacare is not sustainable and they knew that from day one.
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
a reply to: introvert
That is incorrect. In some states, like Alabama, there is one insurer and no one gets free insurance. You can qualify for subsidies depending on your income and such but the cost is increasing 36% over last years cost which increased 28% from the year before. Overall Alabama healthcare costs have increased a total of 223%. Everybody pays.
Since this penalty is in the form of a tax, any penalty or punishment you could expect from not paying your taxes applies. Forcing someone to buy something they don't want and/or cant afford and punishing them financially for not buying it is criminal in my book. Its called extortion, racketeering at the very least. Buying this health insurance is akin to buying protection from the mafia.
How many were jailed?
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: Trueman
I don't want anything with the name Obama on it anyway.
If the ACA isn't 100% repealed, you won't be able to avoid Obama's grasp. Two new taxes in the next 2 years will hit everyone who is an employee, or an employer.
originally posted by: Trueman
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: Trueman
I don't want anything with the name Obama on it anyway.
If the ACA isn't 100% repealed, you won't be able to avoid Obama's grasp. Two new taxes in the next 2 years will hit everyone who is an employee, or an employer.
It isn't about the money.
Getting rid of the requirement that everyone in the country have health insurance coverage would save the government $338 billion over the next decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Wednesday.
But that savings would come with 13 million fewer people having insurance coverage by 2027, CBO analysts say. Some of those people would not want to buy insurance, but others couldn't afford it. The study also concludes that premiums would rise 10 percent every year.
Senate Republicans slipped the repeal of a key Affordable Care Act provision into their tax bill Tuesday, adding a provision that would allow them to declare a victory on health care while gaining more than $300 billion to offset the cost of tax reform.
The individual mandate is one of the most unpopular parts of the ACA — a requirement that people either buy health insurance or pay a penalty. About 6.5 million taxpayers paid a fine in 2016, according to a January letter sent by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
Not so happy are a group of doctors and insurers who wrote a letter to congressional leaders asking them to reconsider. The consequences of eliminating the mandate, they write, will be dire.
The CBO also predicts that premiums in the markets would spike 10% without Obamacare’s individual mandate as the exchanges are left with a sicker consumer pool. However, for most Obamacare enrollees (those making between 100% and 400% of the Federal Poverty Level), an accompanying increase in federal subsidies will make up for higher premiums.