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Originally Posted by gales0678
all taxpayers do
it's not mandatory when someone will just rather pay the fine for the yr $750
explain to me how it is mandatory when the fine is less than the cost of coverage
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Gales, I think if you wade through the Senate bill, the fine maxes out at 2% of income for those of a certain low income level range, but the health insurance available to them (through non-profit exchanges) will more reasonable to obtain than paying the fine for them.
And those less than a certain income level are not "mandated" to have insurance.
Someone reminded in an op-ed that the initial 1964 Lyndon Johnson Medicare covered only widows and orphans. There have been two major adjustments to Medicare since, to where it now covers most elderly Americans.
Healthcare reform, like Medicare, will be adjusted over time to do what it needs to do, in a better manner than now implemented (not leaving out 10 million uninsured)
Right now, the CBO predicts it (the Senate version if implemented unchanged) will be clearly cost-effective, and
reduce the budget deficit over the next 20 years by billions.