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How much will you be fined if you don't buy insurance?

It is a tax........

So said the Obama administration in court filings and the Supreme Court agreed.

"The controlling opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld the mandate as a tax, "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-health-care-decision_n_1585131.html

I would also be concerned those subsidies will not last long once the true costs hits.

"Finally, under Obamacare, low- and middle-income Americans who are unable to obtain employer-sponsored insurance will be eligible for federally subsidized coverage through the new health exchanges. According to CBO, 19 million Americans will receive subsidies. But analysis by Holtz-Eakin shows that reliance on the subsidies could increase to as many as 35 million Americans because of the perverse incentives in Obamacare for employers to dump coverage altogether."

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/06/new-analysis-reveals-obamacare-will-cost-more-than-expected/

I recently had a neighbor talk to me telling me about his company that employees over a thousand employees. He was told by his owner that full time employees are no longer allowed and only part time employees will be hired. It was stated to him that the company could not financially afford to pay for the insurance for any more full time employees. This means all employees can not work more than 25 hours a week. I will be adding a blog to my website, http://drvanderloop.com/, referring back to your articles so people can realize that health insurance is not going to solve our health problems. With obesity at all time health, diabetes, etc, more insurance is not going to solve this.

Without the public option it stinks. Medicare spends three cents of the healthcare dollar on "administration." Insurers spend forty cents. Medicare does Not have death panels, despite the hateradio lie, but insurers have had them for decades. I worked at Blue Cross long ago and saw the code in an IBM MVS/OS Selective Sort - computers make the decision, not a panel. I've also helped people who were victimized by corrupt insurers. Insurance is America's Largest Organized Criminal Enterprise.

So throwing health insurance entirely back to the industry that has wrecked it is a total mistake. The lack of a public option makes the Obama plan sulfurous.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/06/30/the-myth-of-medicares-low-administrative-costs/