Man celebrating vote to repeal Obamacare learns he is on Obamacare

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Mr Puggsly said:

irstupid said:

Do you pay for health insurance?

If you do at all, you would know how big of a joke $700 is. I pay like $125 a month in insurance (not bad, was worse at last job), but that is through work, meaning my work covers like 3/4 of the cost or so. If I were not through work, it woudl be more expensive.

Regardless, $700 is the cheapest option. Paying a fine each year woudl be the cheapest route.

And, from what I've heard they can't even check if you have had insurance or not. All youd o when filling out taxes is check a box if you have insurance all year or not. At least that is all I did last year. I didn't need a sheet for proof, didn't send anything to prove i had it, ect. So tell me, how do they fine those that don't have it. They coudl just lie on their taxes and say they do have insurance. 

We are lucky because our insurance is cheap. I pay about the same. But at a previous job it was significantly worse.

Its only $700 this year, which is a lot for people struggling. The penalties would get significantly higher each year to the point people cant afford the penalty. But if you cant afford the insurance either, youre fucked. Its a broken system.

Wasn't saying $700 was cheap for struggling families. Was just talking about it's price. I think last year it was only like $300.

The point is, it is "Illegal" to not have health insurance. Thus struggling families shoudl have health insurance anyway. BUT the cheapest solution is to be illegal and pay the fine. It's fiscally more responsable for them to pay the yearly fine than it is to actually have health insurance legally. 

Until the fine is more than the actual insurance, people will do it that way.