I’m self employed and have been rolling the dice with no health insurance whatsoever for the last 5 years. I have no immediate plans to change. I don’t believe obamacare is going to make it out of the supreme court. I don’t believe there will be a compromise. I think it will be struck down entirely.
Hope so.
The individual mandate: Health-care's inherent controversy
How the Supreme Court could punt
Next year's Supreme Court hearing has been billed as judgment day for Obama's Affordable Care Act. But it might end with no judgment at all. Before the justices rule on the individual mandate's constitutionality, they will first have to decide whether the 1867 Anti-Injunction Act bars the claimants' challenge. That law prevents citizens from challenging the legality of a tax before it goes into effect. If the court finds that the penalty for defying the Affordable Care Act's mandate is a tax, they could push a legal challenge back to 2015, when the first fines will be levied. And that, said Simon Lazarus, an expert at the National Senior Citizens Law Center, might "be a good solution for a court that doesn't really care to be Public Issue No. 1 in an election year."
I know, I am in the same boat. And I am scared to death...but if I die before the mandates hit I have worried for nothing.
Naw really, the worst they do is keep your refund, right? If you don’t have a refund they can’t really force you to pay it either. You pay the required taxes, just not the 0bamacare penalty.