In his presentation he said explicitly that you can choose not to buy insurance.
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Let’s say you lose a job with insurance and you don’t get another for 3 months. You went 3 months without insurance so when you sign up with the new plan they will charge you a 30% penalty for a year for not having coverage.
You did not choose to go without insurance, it just happened. And the penalty under Ryancare amounts to much more money for most people than the penalty under Obamacare.
It’s still a penalty for not buying insurance.
Ok, then I am being misinformed by his presentation. It really isn’t a mandate but it is a BS rule. Why enshrine that into law? If the insurance company wants to do that then fine, we can go to another one. I DO have a problem with this provision but I wouldn’t throw the whole thing out because of it. Just scrap it...
Sounds like it is an attempt to mitigate preexisting conditions costs for the insurance companies.