Yahoo! Finance: Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage

[RSLudlum]

here in Massachusetts, people purchase insurance during tax time, then just stop paying once the tax season is over. No insurance, no fines.

So they purchase a service which they don't recieve? Tomorrow, I think I'm going to go buy a flat screen tv and leave it in the store.

 

[Rael]

the article says they will collect it from the income tax

 

[james1906]

Does this $1000 go to your own insurance? There is no affordable insurance.

 

[JAlli41]

So they purchase a service which they don't recieve? Tomorrow, I think I'm going to go buy a flat screen tv and leave it in the store.

They stop paying the monthly fees, and no longer recieve the services. If you put a flat screen on layaway, you could take it home, if you stopped paying the monthly charges it would be repossesed.

 

[Stary Hickory]

God I love living in a free country.

 

[steph3n]

I'll spend every dollar they try to fine me hiring lawyers.....

 

[Kylie]

the article says they will collect it from the income tax

Easy way to fix that....don't file.

 

[RonPaulCentral]

Easy way to fix that....don't file.

Personally I think this is the way it is going to go.

 

[satchelmcqueen]

What happens if I can not afford "affordable" health"care"? If I lived in Mass the cheapest coverage my family would be forced to buy is like $1200 a month and that really doesnt cover anything at all.

thats a real question Obama needs to be asked on national tv. i hardly make $1200 a month! if this were to happen, my employer would have to raise my wage double or more just so i could stay at the level i am now. then he would be out of business. this is the great snowball effect this shitty bill will have on everyone. no way in hell im paying out money like that just because they say i have to. our insurance is $40 a week as it is and sometimes thats alot to pay.

 

[armstrong]

So they tax us for the 1 trillion ,the cost of the program and cut Medicaid and Medicare and force us to buy the insurance or we are fined,,,,I think they will take the money through taxing our wages on a monthly basis not at the end of the year I suspect / we are screwed