80 Percent of Obamacare Mandate Paid by Those Making Less Than $50,000

[G1..]

Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress

If you are not covered by health insurance, if you do not buy something you are obligated by our fascist government to buy simply for the sin of being born, the federal government penalizes you with a tax of $675 for each adult in your household, plus an additional $347.50 for each child or a maximum penalty of $2085. Or… You will pay 2.5 percent of your adjusted gross income if that comes out to a higher amount than the per person penalty.

According to Forbes, the IRS reports that 6.67 million families are getting soaked by the Obamacare mandate. A full 5.3 million (or 80 percent) of those make less than $50,000 a year."

Further down in the article is the reason you shouldn't believe anything Politfact writes either.

All tumps doing,he is sabotaging it.trump is purposely hurting the American people.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by pghquest

Wrong.. paying money to the IRS is not paying the bills to the hospital..

Hospital? You said the taxpayer is picking up the tab, and now you just proved my point. If they are paying the IRS, then obviously that makes THEM the taxpayer.

Why are you having such a had time with this?

[moneill]

Originally Posted by EddieB.Good

I wonder what the share is that come from states that didn't expand Medicare? Probably the lion's share. If you care about these people, maybe you should tell those legislatures to pass the expansion...

This is really important to note.

Many states chose not to take the federal money for Medicare. (South Carolina).

That's on the Republican state govt.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

Hospital? You said the taxpayer is picking up the tab, and now you just proved my point. If they are paying the IRS, then obviously that makes THEM the taxpayer.

Why are you having such a had time with this?

You do understand its the taxpayer who picks up the cost of the subsidies right?

Thats completely different than those who DONT have insurance and thus leaves the hospital with NOTHING from the visit, and paying a fine, does not cover the hospital tab AT ALL...

Unless the fines, are then passed through to the hospitals to cover costs, and not the insurance industry, then the taxpayer, paying the fine, is NOT contributing to spread the cost of insurance because THEY DONT HAVE ANY..

Why are YOU having such a hard time with this?

[boneyard1962]

Originally Posted by G1..

All tumps doing,he is sabotaging it.trump is purposely hurting the American people.

The argument can be made that the ACA hurt the American people. It sure didn't help me and the millions like me that already had health insurance. It is a bad law and will always be a bad law. We could have had Universal Health care or single payer Health Care. Instead we got stuck with Obama care.