[Tax-chick]

I think the compound subject is confusing some readers. If we break it up, we get sentences such as, "No individual offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall be required to participate in any Federal health insurance program created under this Act ...".

That is, the paragraph affects an individual only if he "offer[s] group or individual health insurance coverage." It is not relevant to an individual in his capacity as a purchaser of group or individual health insurance coverage.

[SAJ]

Simple enough to qualify. Put together a “health coverage plan” and offer it, formally and in writing, to your husband. You now qualify as exempt from having to deal with OjerkoffCare and are free of the penalty/tax/whateverthehellitis, whether your husband accepts your offer or not (which result, I assume, you and he will have prearranged to your own satisfaction).

[Silentgypsy]

That’s how I understood it. I really think some wiseguys aimed to create ambiguity where there was fury.