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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

What If Americans Rebel Against The Obamacare Mandate?

The Obama administration is trying to persuade millions of uninterested, or perhaps reluctant, Americans to purchase health insurance through the Obamacare exchanges. But the heart of Obamacare is coercion. If Americans fail do what the law's Democratic authors believe is best, the federal government will punish them, through the progressively higher penalties of the individual mandate, until it hurts more not to buy coverage than it does to give up and purchase it.

But what if many of those Americans rebel? Even if they know having health insurance is better than not having it, what if they refuse to be forced to buy the kind of coverage dictated by the government — which may not really meet their needs — at prices they don't want to pay? What then?

"I don't think Obamacare can survive without people wanting to buy it," Bob Laszewski, the respected health care analyst whose writings on Obamacare have become essential in recent months, told me in an email exchange recently. "How the hell are you going to enforce a mandate to buy something that people don't think is valuable enough to buy? If the uninsured don't start to see value in Obamacare and buy it, is the Democratic solution to fine the heck out of them until it hurts so much they have to buy it? Great political strategy!"

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fact; 85% of the American voters didn't want Government mandated healthcare.
Fact; Obama had to bribe 3 Democratic Senators to get the votes he needed for passage.
Fact; The law states that a child can remain on their family plan until they are 26 years of age, and Obama can't understand why young people are not signing up.
Fact; Obama is not only stupid, he's a liar.
Fact; When folks insurance plans have been canceled and their new government mandated healthcare doubled the cost of their coverage and folks are fined for something they don't want the Democrats will loose a lot of support.
Fact; It's time Republicans held their ground.

Anonymous said...

Fact. This is all BS that we will not put up with.
Fact. This will not be pretty
Fact. we're pretty much done with ignorant senators and overbearing laws.
Fact.Obama needs to go
Fact.Obamacare has to go

Gerald said...

They will come in the night and smash down your door, entering with guns drawn and black dress uniforms, screaming at you and your family in a language thru their masks that you don't really comprehend, if you make a wrong move you will be shot. Your children will be taken from you, because you are a "Bad Parent" for not buying health care for them! You will be arrested for defying a direct government order to buy insurance! They will rip thru your house looking for other "Evidence" against you to show you are a danger to the new order! Guns, anti-Obama pamphlets, CB radio, survival books, ect.

WELCOME TO THE NEW AMERICA, the change to people voted for!!!

Anonymous said...

Amen

Anonymous said...

Fact: Unless one receives a refund from the Government the IRS under the law cannot force anyone to pay the fine. That is in the law. Bottom line if you pay taxes and do not get a refund and do not buy Obama care insurance - there is absolutely nothing the IRS can do about it.