opelmanta1900 wrote:if you don't want to pay taxes, then you don't work... I think it's crazy but there are people who take that route...
but if you don't want to use health care, the government will literally come and take money from you and if you don't have money, jail...
that's why...
More myths about Obamacare...
Jail was never part of the penalty.
Moreover, exemptions from the mandate reduced the number of people who would be subject to financial penalties for failing to have healthcare to only a few million, mostly middle class, people who made between $55K and $115K. The plan required the IRS to include healthcare coverage info on the annual individual tax collection. The IRS reported that 5.6 million people paid a penalty for not having healthcare in 2015, as reported in their tax filings in 2016. They paid an avg $442, which in almost all cases was less than their refund.
https://www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/ive-heard-that-the-government-wont-really-be-able-to-enforce-the-penalty-for-not-having-health-insurance-is-this-true/