Friday, February 20, 2015

Almost Half The Uninsured Still Don't Know They Owe An Obamacare Penalty

Almost Half The Uninsured Still Don't Know They Owe An Obamacare Penalty | The Daily Caller
obamacare"Close to half of uninsured adults are still unaware that Obamacare’s individual mandate will fine them for not buying health insurance, according to a Thursday poll from the Urban Institute.
As of Dec. 2014, 25 percent of uninsured Americans above the poverty line said they’d heard “nothing at all” about the fine. 
Another 20 percent said they had heard “only a little.” 
A slight majority, 53 percent, reported hearing some or a lot about the tax (which the Obama administration calls the “individual shared responsibility payment”).
Americans who were uninsured last year will have to pay the penalty for the first time this tax season. The penalty for going uninsured in 2014 was $95 or 1 percent of income, whichever is greater — but this year, that penalty has grown to $325 or 2 percent of income..."

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