what's next for America's uninsured?
2012-Jun-28, Thursday 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerHow will the U.S. government punish me for being too poor to afford healthcare?
The U.S. Supreme Court has broadly upheld our new health care law (generally called "Obamacare" among those who disapprove). The most controversial provision of the law was its individual mandate. All Americans must pay for healthcare insurance.
I don't care about the politics of anything else. I only want to know how this mandate will be enforced. As I understood it last year, there was a multi-thousand-dollar penalty charged to anyone who failed to purchase healthcare. I, like a great many Americans, cannot afford that much money. So, again, I ask the only question that really matters.
How will the U.S. government punish me for being too poor to afford healthcare?
The U.S. Supreme Court has broadly upheld our new health care law (generally called "Obamacare" among those who disapprove). The most controversial provision of the law was its individual mandate. All Americans must pay for healthcare insurance.
I don't care about the politics of anything else. I only want to know how this mandate will be enforced. As I understood it last year, there was a multi-thousand-dollar penalty charged to anyone who failed to purchase healthcare. I, like a great many Americans, cannot afford that much money. So, again, I ask the only question that really matters.
How will the U.S. government punish me for being too poor to afford healthcare?