SpidermanTuba
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- #21
How is the mandate an income tax? How can they mandate that you buy something from a private entity? If you don't purchase insurance aren't they fining you? Or are they passing that off as a tax?
Its quite simple. If you do not hold health care coverage, a 2.5% tax will be levied on your income, not to exceed the cost of an average plan. You're quite free to not purchase your own insurance, in which case, the government will levy this tax on you, and buy insurance for you, at which point, you're quite free to not actually use if you don't like. That is, of course, until you wind up in an emergency room where your expenses will actually be paid for.