As Rush pointed out the other day, the penalty starts at $95/yr the first year for some folks. Obviously many will pay the penalty while it’s so much cheaper than buying insurance, so as employers drop insurance coverage and people opt to just pay the penalty over the first few years, this will result in a massive drop in the number of people paying private insurance premiums. Which means that by the time the penalties really start to get painful in a few years, there will be fewer insurance companies, and premiums will be even higher.
All of which is fine and dandy to the libs, since they’d like nothing better than to completely break the insurance business, forcing the government to step in as a single-payer.
Just watch and see if this doesn’t happen...
Even if it were but only $10.00 fine, I would refuse to opay it.
My life came from God, not the government. They have no right to force me to do anything about my health.
Even the Constitution grants the truth that we are endowed by our Creator, not the government. Thus I am free to do with my health anything I wish and they cannot do crap to me.
I think that’s their end intention, but I also see a growing retail market for health care. You know - where you write a check to your doctor/dentist like we used to in a sane America.