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IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
CNS News ^ | January 31, 2013 | Matt Cover

Posted on 01/31/2013 2:43:47 PM PST by rhema

In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.

Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS.

The IRS's assumption that the cheapest plan for family of five will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan.

“The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000,” the regulation says.

Bronze will be the lowest tier health-insurance plan available under Obamacare--after Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Under the law, the penalty for not buying health insurance is supposed to be capped at either the annual average Bronze premium, 2.5 percent of taxable income, or $2,085.00 per family in 2016.

In the new final rules published Wednesday, IRS set in law the rules for implementing the penalty Americans must pay if they fail to obey Obamacare's mandate to buy insurance.

To help illustrate these rules, the IRS presented examples of different situations families might find themselves in.

In the examples, the IRS assumes that families of five who are uninsured would need to pay an average of $20,000 per year to purchase a Bronze plan in 2016.

Using the conditions laid out in the regulations, the IRS calculates that a family earning $120,000 per year that did not buy insurance would need to pay a "penalty" (a word the IRS still uses despite the Supreme Court ruling that it is in fact a "tax") of $2,400 in 2016.

For those wondering how clear the IRS's clarifications of this new "penalty" rule are, here is one of the actual examples the IRS gives:

“Example 3. Family without minimum essential coverage.

"(i) In 2016, Taxpayers H and J are married and file a joint return. H and J have three children: K, age 21, L, age 15, and M, age 10. No member of the family has minimum essential coverage for any month in 2016. H and J’s household income is $120,000. H and J’s applicable filing threshold is $24,000. The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000.

"(ii) For each month in 2016, under paragraphs (b)(2)(ii) and (b)(2)(iii) of this section, the applicable dollar amount is $2,780 (($695 x 3 adults) + (($695/2) x 2 children)). Under paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section, the flat dollar amount is $2,085 (the lesser of $2,780 and $2,085 ($695 x 3)). Under paragraph (b)(3) of this section, the excess income amount is $2,400 (($120,000 - $24,000) x 0.025). Therefore, under paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the monthly penalty amount is $200 (the greater of $173.75 ($2,085/12) or $200 ($2,400/12)).

"(iii) The sum of the monthly penalty amounts is $2,400 ($200 x 12). The sum of the monthly national average bronze plan premiums is $20,000 ($20,000/12 x 12). Therefore, under paragraph (a) of this section, the shared responsibility payment imposed on H and J for 2016 is $2,400 (the lesser of $2,400 or $20,000).”


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To: rhema

slavery


81 posted on 01/31/2013 4:03:46 PM PST by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: henkster

bump!


82 posted on 01/31/2013 4:05:26 PM PST by dforest
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To: nascarnation

We are becoming the target of tyranny


83 posted on 01/31/2013 4:14:11 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Lexington / Concord, America's first gun grab attempt)
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To: rhema

Good thing this isn’t going to impact congress or muzzies.


84 posted on 01/31/2013 4:16:40 PM PST by crosshairs (All we are saying, is give a high cap piece a chance.)
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To: TigersEye

nonsense.
You can start collecting luxury refrigerator boxes right now! Then you’ll always have a place to call home.
Couple of refrigerator boxes (1 per family member), a big tarp to cover them with .... you’ve got it made.


85 posted on 01/31/2013 4:20:13 PM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Artcore

Ok. Here’s an example of the breaking news and I am being kind, “republicans refuse to pay for healthcare, a virtual death sentence for women and children without insurance.” (We got a preview of the outrage against Republicans for the delay in funding Sandy).


86 posted on 01/31/2013 4:22:02 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Lorianne

Too weak for here in tornado country.
I’m going with a shipping container, LOL.


87 posted on 01/31/2013 4:22:39 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This was the plan all along, to push everyone into single payer and put the insurance companies out of business.

Why should they be in a hurry to do this? All families who pay the $20,000 and even more for better plans will be be paying the freight for (subsidizing) those who pay no Federale income tax which is now a bit less than half the population and whom 85% are Obama voters. You can also call Obama care a reparations and wealth transfer scheme. 0-Care is in effect another taxation scheme in that money will be taken from the producers and given to the non-producers for their medical care

 

88 posted on 01/31/2013 4:25:21 PM PST by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing --- Joe Pine)
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To: rhema
The IRS's assumption that the cheapest plan for family of five will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan.

“The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000,” the regulation says.

Bronze will be the lowest tier health-insurance plan available under Obamacare--after Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Under the law, the penalty for not buying health insurance is supposed to be capped at either the annual average Bronze premium, 2.5 percent of taxable income, or $2,085.00 per family in 2016.

Pay $20,000, or pay $2,000? Hmmm....choices, choices.

89 posted on 01/31/2013 4:28:35 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
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To: Ellendra

Remember ... the Democrats came up with the idea to make turning someone away from a hospital illegal....

We tried to tell them that people would stop buying insurance and they laughed at us.

Then everyone stopped buying insurance and the costs started skyrocketing.

Now they come back and force everyone to buy insurance. All this BS because poiticians want their names on historic legislation ... the conseqeunces be damned.


90 posted on 01/31/2013 4:32:12 PM PST by willyd (Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
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To: Lorianne
You're right. I should know better. I watched Dual Survival last night and they crawled into a big hay bale for warmth. They even found five mice underneath it to eat. I've got to watch that pessimistic streak of mine.

Thanks for the kick in the seat! ;^)

91 posted on 01/31/2013 4:32:16 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Hoodat; rhema

92 posted on 01/31/2013 4:32:51 PM PST by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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To: Envisioning

“Wow! The revolution might start much sooner than I thought”

To add, one or all of the below things happen:

1. The 47% Taker-Class expects nothing but the best healthcare service (their fair share), don’t get it, have to wait for it and start civil unrest.

2. The Maker-Class goes Galt or a lessor version. Cash and barter for private medical treatment becomes the norm, forcing the Taker-Class into even longer waits for service, again making the system ripe for unrest.

3. Physicians, willing or unwilling to submit, will be conscripted for “the common good”. Sort of like the draft....forced labor will begin with the medical community.

4. Some combination of #1, #2 or #3.

IMHO, I think cash-only/barter only medical clinics will be springing up in international waters on hi-tech yachts....


93 posted on 01/31/2013 4:33:20 PM PST by LadyBuck (Illegal aliens are like sperm. Millions get in but only one works....)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


94 posted on 01/31/2013 4:34:52 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: nascarnation

Put some wings on it and you’ll get free airfare ... and no TSA!


95 posted on 01/31/2013 4:35:09 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: RFEngineer
Where is all this money going?

Be careful about the questions you ask, Comrade.


96 posted on 01/31/2013 4:35:30 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: LadyBuck

Don’t forget the flood of incoming Third World physicians who will work for pennies and be worth every one!


97 posted on 01/31/2013 4:37:41 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Uncle Miltie

40% on health care, 30% on taxes....


98 posted on 01/31/2013 4:45:01 PM PST by EBH ( The 2nd Amendment exists for times like this.)
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To: Jonty30
All Americans would need to give 180% of their income to the IRS to make this pyramid scheme work.
Where would the other 80% come from? Work camps for not paying it all.


Making everyone a criminal and ending all gun ownership through healthcare criminal prosecutions.

And if Americans think that this isn't intended, they have a Democrat mental disorder.

99 posted on 01/31/2013 4:45:57 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: rhema
INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS, THEY SHOULD BE SENT HOME! HAVEN'T THEY FIGURED THIS OUT YET?
100 posted on 01/31/2013 4:47:01 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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