Posted on 11/16/2014 2:29:40 PM PST by Whenifhow
Free and affordable health care just gets better and better.
In 2015 the government will be activating some new “incentives” embedded in the Affordable Care Act in an effort to get more people to sign up.
But, as is often the case when the government says one thing, they mean exactly the opposite. In this case, when they say incentive what they really mean is that you are going to be penalized if you fail to acquire government mandated health insurance. But not just you. Your children, who apparently no longer belong to you anyway based on a recent court ruling, will be fined for your failure to get them on the insurance rolls:
Penalties for failing to secure a health-insurance plan will rise steeply next year, which could take a big bite out of some families’ pocketbooks.
“The penalty is meant to incentivize people to get coverage,” said senior analyst Laura Adams of InsuranceQuotes.com. “This year, I think a lot of people are going to be in for a shock.”
In 2014, Obamacare’s first year, individuals are facing a penalty of $95 per person, or 1 percent of their income, depending on which is higher. If an American failed to get coverage this year, that penalty will be taken out of their tax refund in early 2015, Adams noted.
While that might be painful to some uninsured Americans who are counting on their tax refunds in early 2015, the penalty for going uninsured next year is even harsher. The financial penalty for skipping out on health coverage will more than triple to $325 per person in 2015, or 2 percent of income, depending on whichever is higher.
Children will be fined at half the adult rate, or $162.50 for those under 18 years old.
Source: CBS News
So, that’s your incentive. Either sign up for Obamacare at a rate of roughly $750 a month or more for a middle-class family of four, or pay a $325 penalty or two percent of your income, whichever is higher. Plus, if you have kids, they’ve been incentivized too!
Moreover, if you fail to sign up for Obamacare and subsequently refuse to pay your penalty your house will be raided by armed IRS agents, seized by the government, and you’ll be imprisoned for tax evation.
Welcome to the new America, where the government now has the power to compel you to purchase products from private companies under the threat of imprisonment or death. Yes, death. Because if you run from those armed IRS agents they’re going to use their brand new militarized AR-15′s to ensure your compliance.
At this point the only chance Americans have for the complete destruction of the Affordable Care Act is for a Supreme Court ruling expected in the Spring of 2015. If the court rules against Obamacare over its illegal federal subsidies then the law could fall apart almost instantly.
These days, even democrats who supported the legislation before anyone had a chance to actually review it are up in arms. It seems many have finally realized that free health care isn’t actually, well, free.
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.
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“Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”
Source: Democrat Voters Confused via Mercury News
Suckers, the whole lot of them. Unfortunately, they supported legislative action that will eventually unravel the entire economic fabric of the United States of America unless it is repealed or overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Your “Children Will Be Fined” If You Fail To Sign Up For Obamacare: People Are Going To Be In for A Shock
And if the parent does not work and the kids are age 21, 23, 25 and all live on their own???? Then what?
“It’s for the children.”
Head taxes are illegal. Compulsion to contract is illegal.
It will go on your Permanent Record, citizen....
And if the parent does not work and the kids are age 21, 23, 25 and all live on their own???? Then what?
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Apparently this “fine” applies to those under the age of 18. So you are right - there is a discrepancy since Obamacare let’s those kids 26 and under on Obamacare.
Certainly they have made a rule or regulation regarding this, but it isn’t in the article.
From the article:
“Children will be fined at half the adult rate, or $162.50 for those under 18 years old.”
WEll, our children will be very busy paying back the $20 trillion this group of grifters, GOP included, have racked up, not to mention the avg $o K college debt those friends of academia, the education dept and their loan granting/tuition-setting activities are busy foisting on our innocent children, who, BTW, will not have medical care after this mess, and they can just have a lot of luck fending off the Chinese, after this abortion/birth control-happy group has killed off 54 million americans
How do these people think they’ll come off in history?, bunch of abortionists.
The fine is a tax thanks to Roberts. So any American who refuses to comply can face tax evasion charges.
Isnt that nice? While Obama is rushing to help illegal aliens he’s making Americans criminals.
So if I am not libel for taxes but have to pay for not
joining, is it a tax or is it onerous coercion?
-PJ
Words fail me. Just who did she think was going to have to pay for it?
Crazier ands crazier.
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
Exemptions from the payment
You may qualify for an exemption from the penalty for not being insured if:
You’re uninsured for less than 3 months of the year
The lowest-priced coverage available to you would cost more than 8% of your household income
You don’t have to file a tax return because your income is too low (Learn about the filing limit (PDF)
You’re a member of a federally recognized tribe or eligible for services through an Indian Health Services provider
You’re a member of a recognized health care sharing ministry
You’re a member of a recognized religious sect with religious objections to insurance, including Social Security and Medicare
You’re incarcerated (either detained or jailed), and not being held pending disposition of charges
You’re not lawfully present in the U.S.
You qualify for a hardship exemption
It incentivizes alright! It incentivizes us to all come down hard on the new GOP majority to get this piece of work repealed. I don’t care what color the man’s skin is he must be sent packing.
IMPEACH the lyin’ King!
Ja wohl, mein Führer!
OK. You have $50,000 taxable income. You overpayed a bit just to be safe and you calculate that you should get back about $500. Good enough for you and the wifey to take a three-day to Vegas. A little sun. A little fun.
Oops. You forgot about that 1% Obamacare Tax. That refund you were counting on is not $500 it is $Zero. No Vegas. No sun. No fun.
The Good News: This is only 2014. Next year the penalty will double to $1000. No Vegas. No Christmas.
I have to bet that the Dems are, deep down inside, praying that the Supremes kill this thing dead before we reach 2016 and they have to face the voting public again.
Another bonus - quoting from the article:
"Moreover, if you fail to sign up for Obamacare and subsequently refuse to pay your penalty your house will be raided by armed IRS agents, seized by the government, and you’ll be imprisoned for tax evation."
Obama has what he always wanted , All American’s under Total Government Control
Being that Repubs control the House and Senate can’t they repeal this Obamination?
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