Posted on 06/28/2013 8:25:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The vast majority of Americans, 81%, say they are aware of the 2010 Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) requirement that most Americans must carry health insurance or pay a fine. Americans who are currently uninsured -- those most directly affected by this requirement -- are much less likely to be aware of the provision, with 56% saying they know about it and 43% saying they are unaware.
The results are based on a June 20-24 Gallup poll, which asked a series of questions on the ACA, the comprehensive healthcare reform bill signed into law by President Obama in 2010. Many of the law's key provisions will go into effect January 2014. Gallup previously reported that more Americans thought the law would make the healthcare situation worse than better for themselves and the nation.
The subgroups that are less likely to be aware of the health insurance requirement are also the subgroups that are least likely to be insured, including Hispanics, blacks, young adults, and those in lower-income households.
The federal government is ramping up its efforts to increase awareness among the uninsured to purchase health insurance. Those who lack insurance can find and purchase a plan for 2014 through a government website starting Oct. 1.
Three in Four Americans at Least Somewhat Familiar With the ACA
From a broader perspective, most Americans say they are at least somewhat familiar with the ACA as a whole -- with 16% saying they are very familiar with it and 59% saying they are somewhat familiar with it. Those who currently have insurance are more likely to say they are familiar with the law than those who are uninsured.
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Isn’t there a floor income below which the Obamasites don’t have to comply?
Agreed...
Any thought that the tax form will aks what race you are?
Makes for easy enforcement.
I hope you are correct on that. I don't know the facts, I am making some assumptions based on the modus operandi of the IRS thugs, and the intentions of the scum that wrote this fascist garbage.
In is in the Obamacare Survival guide.
I spoke to my Enrolled Agent Gnome a while back with a major national tax firm. The Gnome is horrified at the prospect of meeting with clients many are poor or broke since 08’ and now have to tell them about this, and explain it all because for many, this is the only financial professional they interface with all year. It is going to be a Cluster Fornication of UnLawful Carnal Knowledge...
There’s probably something built in to the *immigration* bill that offers these uninformed victims a bail out. More 0Stash (taxpayer dollahs), ya know.
All the commies need to say is, “Boooosh did it.” The stupids will hate the GOP for making them pay a fine for their free health care and vote for the commies to fix it. Better yet, they could say “the Christians did it” and get their voters to burn down churches.
LOL!! That's a funny story!
I think people in SC should offer their spare rooms to illegal immigrants. Maybe Loveable Lindsey can come up with a federal program where SC people who are “generous” can get extra compensation.
Sadly, AZ and SC are proof that this will never happen.
“One CPA told me that the IRS doesn’t have the power in the ACA law to actually levy and collect the fine.”
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So what? They can’t produce the law that allows the IRS to collect income tax but it hasn’t stopped them. Almost everything government is doing these days is done without legal authority, it is done under “color” of law. The whole health care act is in total violation of the constitution, the mere fact that the supreme court voted otherwise changes nothing in reality.
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