I think that the answer for faith-based organizations is to give up health care entirely and pay the penalties. As I understand it, the penalties are $2000 per employee, which is dramatically less than what employers are paying for insurance now. My former employer in 2011 was paying $10,500 and I was paying $2,500, which I thought was ridiculous. (It’s the fact that some people have “insurance” that makes medicine expensive. Not he fact that some people don’t have it.)
That is what everyone is forgetting when they talk about the high costs run up by ObamaCare. You nailed it. The employers and every single citizen can ignore getting insurance and simply pay penalties.
In terms of their health care, it doesn’t matter because they’re still covered by the government health care plan. Their penalty is their payment.
Right now it’s much smaller than the cost of a policy, but only to the individual/employer. The nation will get gob-smacked with a huge, huge expense that is only now being admitted to by the power elite.
Excellent post, GB!
They should not pay the penalty either, otherwise they are essentially paying a tax in order to exercise their religious freedom.
An unjust law is no law at all. Disobey it.
I’ve wondered about that, because it is a “tax”, not a penalty, as ruled by the Supreme Court.
So, if the college is tax-exempt, would they have to pay the tax for not having health insurance coverage? I wonder if they wrote the law appropriately to cover that?
Sure, it's the smart thing to do financially.
AND...it's in keeping with the spirit of the law.
Seems the affordable health care act was meant to force people into the hands of the government by design. The idea is to hasten the transition to a single payer system. If the movement toward unbounded socialism comes at the price of religious freedom, all the better in the mind of the committed leftist.