They don't give a rat's a*s - they will confiscate from your income - already set for it.
In the meantime, it's going to cost a lot of jobs, deep six many small businesses, and reduce many jobs to part time, under the compulsory radar jobs of 20 hours a week.
Small businesses with less than 10 employees are exempt - so the burden will fall entirely on the worker. But small businesses with, say, 20 -30 employees are already doing one of two things to survive: Splitting their companies in separate under-10-employees companies, on the book - or cutting/hiring folk at part-time, 20 hours a week.
The ramifications of this Communist mandate will be disastrous for all concerned - but won't be recognized in time to stop a lot of damage...if, indeed, the gov't would allow it to be corrected even then. Once they have a source of new revenue, they don't give it up.
Let ANY democrat or Romney in the WH and it will be made a mandate country-wide - and what will be the penalties for those who don't or can't comply? First, steal the money from your pay check - or, failing that, jail time - And you thought 'Debtors Prison' was outlawed...
I know a couple of people who are not working,,,,unemployment ran out and they are still unemployed, jobs aren't exactly a dime a dozen here in MA, however, these people who are unemployed only have very very limited funds for the time being,,,,I'm waiting to see what the State does about these people, who determines what one can afford especially not knowing what kind of bills a person has and IMO, the bills get paid first before health care, I personally went years and years without healthcare, luckily I am healthy,,,,,,,I too heard recently that bigger companies are splitting into smaller ones to avoid penalties, smart thinking businessmen! This is a bleepin' fiasco, you can't get blood from a rock....go ahead and penalize if a person doesn't have the money penalizing them isn't going to make a difference........