This is incorrect “Pay the feds’ new penalty fee of, what, $695 a year? “ It is $695 or 2% of your salary whichever is greater and so if you make 100K your penalty is $2,000.00 and if you are arried and file jointly the penalty goes for your spouse too so now your penalty is $4,000.00. The CBO says the premiums will be 12K single and 15K for a family of 4. So you might not even be able to afford the insurance if you wanted it. Just like Obama said about HIllary’s mandate -that Mass. mandated insurance and people had to pay the fee because they could not afford the premiums.
It is all a sham
I think that you meant to reply to USNBandit.