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Loose your job which had Healthcare, go on cobra (no one can afford it without another job) find new job (Tcare does not require business to have health Benefits). Try to buy Healthcare (if you have a pre-existing condition forget it) when you do not have coverage you get to wait 6 months. So the GOP has figured out how to kill off a whole bunch of people.
It's almost like they don't want to get elected in 2018.
Except certain parts of the country will vote Republican regardless. They could be left to cooking squirrels over a campfire in Kentucky and West Virginia and they will still vote Republican. That's why I have no pity for them. Let blue states create their own health plans and give them the ability to exclude newcomers. The mandates were just a talking/screaming point for the GOP.
It's not the same as the individual mandate. In the new healthcare bill, if you have insurance and allow it to lapse, there can be a penalty. If you are not insured at all, there is no penalty for being uninsured. Note the operative word is "lapsed" in your coverage. You had to have had insurance in the first place and stopped paying the premiums...allowing it to lapse.
It's not the same as the individual mandate. In the new healthcare bill, if you have insurance and allow it to lapse, there can be a penalty. If you are not insured at all, there is no penalty for being uninsured. Note the operative word is "lapsed" in your coverage. You had to have had insurance in the first place and stopped paying the premiums...allowing it to lapse.
It is essentially an individual mandate because it penalizes those who don't have insurance. There's got to be a penalty for being uninsured in order for the pre-existing condition mandate to work... pick your poison: pay cash, or have a 6 month "waiting list" for insurance when you need it. Personally I would've paid cash but I'm a risk-averse person.
You need to have some form of penalty for those who don't have insurance. The penalty in ACA wasn't strong enough.
In Wisconsin, if you needed to go into the high risk pool; there was a wait period of 6 months if you weren't previously insured. If you were coming off of Cobra or your previous policy was terminated, there was no waiting period.
Medicare will charge you a penalty if you don't sign up when initially eligible and don't have credible coverage.
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