The strategic brilliance of the Affordable Care Act

[Kasz216]

yo_john117 said:

Kasz216 said:

yo_john117 said:

You figure even for a healthy young person you'd need a penalty of around 1,560 to justify having health insurance.  Since that's $130 a month.(Which is cheap for insurance)

Unless the tax gets higher then it is in 2016... it seems like there is little reason to have health insurance...

http://www.healthinsurance.org/learn/obamacare-penalty-calculator/

So essentially the most this health care can cost is 8% of your total wages?

And it looks like if you opt out you have to pay near nothing.

 

If both those stay true then this isn't as bad as I thought.

 

Well 8% for the lowest level "bronze" care... but yeah it won't be more then that. 

The "opt out and pay nothing" thing will likely have to be around for at least a few years, even if it does cause a disaster because nobody will want to set it up so the poor have to pay.  Chances are they'd fix it instead by extending medicare.