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Originally Posted by Redsoxticket
Pay the fine and take the risk of your pay/salary being garnished until your medical bills are paid off or having a lien placed on your estate.
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It's actually quite simple math. If you make more than $70k/yr as an individual (or $120k as a family), might as well pay for insurance, as Obama's fine would be more than the yearly cost for insurance. Considering that the "penalty" increases over time from the initial 1% fine, that $70k will very quickly become under $50k. Yet, assistance to cover costs doesn't start unless you make under $45k.
This isn't a question of "what to do". It's an issue of costs increasing significantly (as widely predicted, mind you) while Obama promised "
a decrease of $2500/yr in family medical costs".
It's almost like Obama and the Democrats wake up each morning and go "hmmm... how can we further force more government impositions onto the individual while also further #^&#^&#^&#^&ing over the economy in the process."