Can you opt out of Obamacare?

[Pedro de San Patricio]

So in three years I'm going to lose Tricare and be back in the civilian job market. It's my understanding that this will require me to enroll in universal healthcare. While I have no problems paying for it, I have my reasons for preferring not to use it myself. Is it possible to opt out of the program in that way?

 

[Ravi]

You don't have to use the exchanges. You can shop for your own policy.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

I meant something more along the lines of paying for universal healthcare while not actually covered by any insurance plan.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I meant something more along the lines of paying for universal healthcare while not actually covered by any insurance plan.

Sure. Pay the fine on your taxes.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

I meant something more along the lines of paying for universal healthcare while not actually covered by any insurance plan.

Sure. Pay the fine on your taxes.

So the only way to pay into it is by taking the fine for not using it?

 

[Ravi]

I meant something more along the lines of paying for universal healthcare while not actually covered by any insurance plan.

We don't have universal health care.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Isn't that what the ACA was intended to put into place?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Isn't that what the ACA was intended to put into place?

That was before the Repubs gutted it.

 

[Arianrhod]

Isn't that what the ACA was intended to put into place?

The PPACA is not insurance. It is means of providing more Americans with access to affordable health insurance.

 

[threegoofs]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I meant something more along the lines of paying for universal healthcare while not actually covered by any insurance plan.

Sure. Pay the fine on your taxes.

So the only way to pay into it is by taking the fine for not using it?

All you have to do is check on the box on your tax return that says "Yes, I have insurance." Unless you get audited, which is highly unlikely if you make less than $100k a year, they won't actually check.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

 

[threegoofs]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

Sounds like another guy who is a solid libertarian until he gets a chronic disease and needs health care.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

Sounds like another guy who is a solid libertarian until he gets a chronic disease and needs health care.

I have health insurance because I can afford it and I choose to

 

[JakeStarkey]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

Sounds like another guy who is a solid libertarian until he gets a chronic disease and needs health care.

I have health insurance because I can afford it and I choose to

Oooooh.

 

[threegoofs]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

Sounds like another guy who is a solid libertarian until he gets a chronic disease and needs health care.

I have health insurance because I can afford it and I choose to

Socialist.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

Sounds like another guy who is a solid libertarian until he gets a chronic disease and needs health care.

I have health insurance because I can afford it and I choose to

Socialist.

 

[Arianrhod]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

Sounds like another guy who is a solid libertarian until he gets a chronic disease and needs health care.

I have health insurance because I can afford it and I choose to

Which gives the lie to Post 12, doesn't it?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Sounds like another guy who doesn't know anything about the ACA, but opposes it out of principle, yet can't articulate what those principles might be.

Well, you know, maybe it's that whole thing called individual choice, something statists like yourself deplore, unless you're slaughtering a fetus, that is.

Sounds like another guy who is a solid libertarian until he gets a chronic disease and needs health care.

I have health insurance because I can afford it and I choose to

Socialist.

Employer provided health insurance is Socialist? Elaborate, please

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I have health insurance because I can afford it and I choose to

Which gives the lie to Post 12, doesn't it?

No