Cool reception for new sign-up window under health care law (Sheeple feeling the Pain)

apnews.myway.com ^ | March 14, 2015 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

[PROCON]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several million people hit with new federal fines for going without health insurance will get a second chance to sign up starting Sunday, and that could ease the sting of rising penalties for being uninsured.

But as the enrollment window reopens, it's unclear how many know about the time-limited opportunity, let alone will take advantage of it.

Fines payable to the IRS are the stick behind the offer of taxpayer-subsidized private insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law. Virtually everyone in the country is now required to have coverage through an employer or a government program, or by buying individual policies.

[PROCON]

Those penalized are mainly the kind of people the law was intended to help: low- and middle-income workers who do not have coverage on the job or are self-employed.

[Dallas59]

Helping the poor become poorer..

[Dallas59]

And might I add their no doctors or facilities to treat all these people. That money is going to foreign aid.

[sickoflibs]

They also don’t know that if they refuse to pay the fine there is nothing the IRS can do about it.

[PROCON]

They also don’t know that if they refuse to pay the fine there is nothing the IRS can do about it.

Most of these folks have refunds coming back and rely on them for basic subsistence.

The IRS will deduct the penalty from their tax return.

Even more poorer people.

Thanks Obama!

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Most of these folks have refunds coming back and rely on them for basic subsistence.
The IRS will deduct the penalty from their tax return.
Even more poorer people.”

You mean their EITC ?? Same one that Obama is giving illegals?

That's welfare anyway.

If they pay net taxes they should adjust their withholding so the IRS doesn't get the Obamacare fine from them. .

[PROCON]

they should adjust their withholding so the IRS doesn't get the Obamacare fine from them.

Yes, they should, but they are the clueless among us and will just get screwed, and demand more gibmedats.

You and I will pay for their ignorance.

[Sun]

“Helping the poor become poorer..”

Reminds me of how the left “helps” the poor, by doing away with the poor, through abortion.

Too bad so many poor people think the Dem politicians are on their side.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Yes, they should, but they are the clueless among us and will just get screwed, and demand more gibmedats.”

Not our Kardashian-Beyonce-texting millennials.

They are the smartest most informed generation in our lifetime.

They all know who won the Grammy’s.

[Secret Agent Man]

Still many be cheaper for many to pay the fine.

[PROCON]

Your satire becomes you :-)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

All 46 million of these Americans, who the law was designed for, will be signed up by the end of the week. /s

[R_Kangel]

.... Only an idiot would believe that the shackles they are forced to bind themselves with will lead to freedom.

..... But then again .... does a Liberal Socialist even bath their minds in anything that even resembles common sense?

.... Sadly .... these are the people that are now determining our fate.

[Vaduz]

Three card Monte winks.