[caww]

I’ve been coming across various comments on line about people opting-out of the Obama-health beast. Might be the beginning of a ground swell, but I understand if you don’t sign up you’ll pay a fine......and for those who get tax returns they’ll deduct that fee from their return.

Meanwhile they have no insurance...so if so and they get seriously ill...what options, if any, do they have? Will emergency rooms be able to refuse them...or require, before they’re helped, they sign up?

[tumblindice]

How many times have we seen here that hospital ERs cannot refuse to treat IIs (illegal immigrants) or deliver their children—even if they know the IIs will walkout never to be seen again?
You agree to finance. If you can’t make your payments, in my state the most they can garnish is 25% of income subject to garnishment. And there’s always bankruptcy relief.
Win-win for everybody: uninsured get treated; hospital administrators write off bad debt; Democrats accomplish their goal of bankrupting the country. Yabba dabba do.

[MN.Gruber06]

"I’ve been coming across various comments on line about people opting-out of the Obama-health beast. Might be the beginning of a ground swell, but I understand if you don’t sign up you’ll pay a fine......and for those who get tax returns they’ll deduct that fee from their return."

Correct. Reading your sentence, it absolutely appalls me how this is Constitutional. But apparently, thanks to some absolutely corrupt judges on the United States Inferior Court, we now have this Unaffordable Care Act.

"Meanwhile they have no insurance...so if so and they get seriously ill...what options, if any, do they have? Will emergency rooms be able to refuse them...or require, before they’re helped, they sign up?"

Doubtful. You cannot "MAKE" me do anything. Make me sign up for mandatory health insurance? What if I'd rather pay the fine due to ideological disagreements? Are you then going to tell me my ideological beliefs are illegal, as well?

As it currently stands, by the way, emergency rooms are required BY LAW to screen and treat anyone who comes in at any time for any reason, regardless of insurance. That is federal law and is one that is strictly enforced.

[VerySadAmerican]

That’s a question I’ve been asking since day one but not one talking head has asked. “If I pay a fine, do I have insurance?”

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Meanwhile they have no insurance...so if so and they get seriously ill...what options, if any, do they have?

You buy insurance before you're admitted. That's the part that collapses the system, leading to... the complete government takeover.