Posted on 12/11/2015 11:17:48 AM PST by Libloather
After two years of genteel coaxing of millions of Americans to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration has begun to turn up the heat with the threat of a sharp increase in tax penalties and other sanctions.
While many people found it far less expensive to pay a penalty than to enroll in a new government-subsidized health care plan, they will be in for a rude awakening if they try that again. In fact, in some ways it will be cheaper to purchase one of the more modest insurance plans than to pay the penalty.
For individuals who went without insurance in early 2015 although they were eligible to enroll, the average household penalty in 2016 will be $969 - a 47 percent increase over the average estimated penalty of $661 this year, according to a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation. People who are eligible for federal premium subsidies will have to pay an average household penalty of $738 in 2016 if they don't sign up, while the average household penalty will total $1,450 for uninsured people who are not eligible for any financial assistance.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Uni-party
Make Traitor Roberts pay these increases for the peeps or throw him in Debtors Prison.
Luckily many are not working, so they don’t have any tax refunds the irs could garnish to pay their obamacare fines with. /s
The freeloaders who voted him in thought that they would be able to simply walk into the hospital and get free care without having to do anything. Now that they are going to start getting penalized, I suspect that we are going to have a lot more people not filing tax returns.
I’ll let you all know in April.
One party that crammed it down our pieholes.
And the other that refuses to repeal it.
Arrange your tax withholding or quarterly payments to leave no Refund.
The government is graciously allowing us to pay $14,000 in premiums with a $6,000 deductible for EACH of my wife and myself.
SO...we pay the first $6,000 each of out medical costs before insurance kicks in a single dime.
As we are responsible adults, eat right, exercise and do not drink or smoke our annual medical costs are less than $1000.
So really what we are paying $14K for is to avoid the catastrophic medical bill. But $14K is a big pill to swallow. I believe that private insurance witout the government overhead could do better.
this is good news for US, the more people hate this, the more out chance of winning the presidency back next year.
Enforcement depends on your political party.
The government will thnk of how to get it right out of your paycheck.
Carrot time’s over. Here comes the stick...
HOPE!, CHANGE, and all of that crap...
Take solace in the fact that you are providing Medicaid for the parasitic class.
How does one penalize the indigent?
No, you're paying for the subsidies and those who get it "free"...
“Luckily many are not working, so they don’t have any tax refunds the irs could garnish to pay their obamacare fines with. /s
A smart working person makes sure that the withholding is minimal. There was no way I would have let the IRS have my money interest free.
.
The enemedia has orders to downplay or even IGNORE the collapse of Obamacare.
The way this country is going under the corrupt uni-party you may find out soon personally.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.