[SERE_DOC]

if the following is correct, then they can go spit!

Title 42 § 18115
Freedom not to participate in Federal health insurance programs

No individual, company, business, nonprofit entity, or health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall be required to participate in any Federal health insurance program created under this Act (or any amendments made by this Act), or in any Federal health insurance program expanded by this Act (or any such amendments), and there shall be no penalty or fine imposed upon any such issuer for choosing not to participate in such programs.

(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1555, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 260.)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It’s all vapor and Obama promises.

[savedbygrace]

BUMP to study later.

[dinodino]

You’re misreading that. Note the “issuer” wording.

[sheana]

The law says you have to have insurance.....or pay a fine. Everything in between is just gobletygook. There are exemptions from the fine. Look them up.

[Mike Darancette]

No individual, company, business, nonprofit entity, or health insurance issuer

This is WHO.

offering group or individual health insurance coverage

What they DO

This refers to health insurance companies, who are not required to play.