Is there really a "mandate" to buy health insurance in the bill?

If you don't buy insurance, you will just be charged a tax penalty. It is perfectly legal to not have insurance and to pay the penalty if you choose to do so. So why is the media calling it a "mandate"? Wouldn't "incentive" be a better word?
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Because if you don't pay the excise tax, you're jailed. It's not like our jails aren't overcrowded, or anything, and I object to jailing people for refusing to buy a product or pay the ridiculous penalty fee, when in ideology, there should BE no penalty fee for having the right to decline.
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Would barry allow Blue Cross to sell health insurance where they CHARGE you for four years?

before delivering the healthcare services? Why does 0bamacare do that?
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It is the illusion of solvency, to compare 10 years of revenue with only 6 years of benefits. The "Progressive" above, if he has followed the health care debate at all, is quite aware that health care reform will have no beneficiaries until late 2013, and will pay substantially no benefits until 2014. How's that for "urgent?"
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Coast Guard health insurance?

My husband is planning to join the Coast Guard. I was wondering, when does the health insurance for dependents start? Would it be when my husband started boot camp? Or after?
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It begins the day he is sworn in to leave for Cape May and begin his basic training.
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Explain how forcing me to pay for health insurance and fining me if I don't will help my financial situation?

The following statement was in a newspaper: "The VA hospital charges me $24 for a three-month supply of medicine. I can get the same thing at a retail pharmacy for $10. What's up with that?" With that in mind.. are we really going to trust the government to regulate all of our healthcare? Seems like a very bad idea to me.
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I think you are very smart for looking into this. I think all consumers will still have to review everything should the Government regulate a better health care service for everyone. I think their target is to help the elderly as well as people who are under insured and with no insurance at all. I think it's a great idea but there is always fine print somewhere that you will have to look out for. People will have to do their homework and review exactly what they will be offered. This is a very good question and you brought up a good point. Hope my point of view helped.
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I work p/t will I b forced 2 purchase health insurance-since the bill passed?

Also my husband is unemployed.
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The bill hasn't passed. You're in the clear for now.
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What would some health insurance quotes be for people 18-25 years old?

in your state?
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A single 18-25 year old? You might pay $100 a month at the higher end.
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How mnay of you come 2014 will REFUSE to get health insurance and REFUSE to pay the fine?

and pocket the 400 a month and eat healthy and get exercise
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NONE of them. They love to be on the take and whine about it. ##
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