Step 1. Join a religious organization (preferably an old fashioned one like Mormonism).
Step 2. Don’t get any health care plan.
Step 3. If you do get really sick, just buy any health insurance plan (they won’t be able to deny you), get the care you need, then opt out.
The best part is, you will not have to pay the additional 2,5% income tax, because Section 501 of H.R. 3962 exempts you:
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any individual (and any qualifying child residing with such individual) for any period if such individual has in effect an exemption which certifies that such individual is a member of a recognized religious sect or division thereof described in section 1402(g)(1) and an adherent of established tenets or teachings of such sect or division as described in such section.
I hope they don’t fix this giant loophole. (Note: I still have to figure out what this section 1402(g)(1) is.)
20, The point was that mandatory health care insurance is not analogous to auto insurance. The premise for each differs.
If you want to make paying into government-run health care mandatory with punishment as high as jail time, then fine do so. But don’t compare that to auto insurance as though the logic has the same basis.
Be that as it may, there is no right to Health Care under the Constitution. Am I saying you can’t have it or get it? Nope. Just that the Federal Government isn’t supposed to have that power to give.
http://tinyurl.com/yz3dxmr
So if my imaginary friend in the sky says government health care is bad, I can get out of it.
If my individual logic and reason says it’s a bad thing, I’m screwed.
Does that sum it up?
For all those who think government-run health care is so terrible, corporate & insurance-run health care has a lot of problems, too. My dad retired with a promise of continued health coverage equal to that which he had while he was working. Well, in less than ten years he lost dental, vision coverage and his 20% co-pay became 80%.
#12, link is not working.
Link to SS 1402 (g)(1): http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00001402—-000-.html