Not only that, the premium is 13% of his income so he can skip insurance without a penalty.
Even if what he says doesn’t comport with the law, that doesn’t mean the glitchy site isn’t sending out wrong calculations.
How stupid is it for the government to even try to make a site like this? Why in the world not just put up a page of links to the insurers’ own web sites and direct people there? The IRS doesn’t let you file taxes directly on their web site. They just link you up to third-party web sites.
From what I understand from reading the law, that’s not correct. He allegedly chose a silver plan with an annual premium of 13% of his annual income. But a literal reading of the law seems to suggest that skipping insurance without paying the tax, obtaining an exclusion because of lack of affordable coverage, requires that the premium for a BRONZE-level plan (which pays even less than the silver plan pays) in OTHER STATES (not necessarily actually available to you) must be less than 8% of your ANNUAL total household income each MONTH to cover ONE person. That’s 96% of your income (before taxes) going to health insurance for EACH person before Congress considers it unaffordable—even if you have 10 persons in your family. That premium actually doesn’t buy any health care; one still must find a doctor willing to take the insurance and pay any deductibles, co-insurance, and other fees. The premiums, however, will enable easy, free chemical warfare against your unborn baby.