Posted on 10/15/2013 9:46:24 AM PDT by Theoria
Think you’re exempt from Obamacare’s individual mandate? Good luck proving it.
The health law’s least popular component — the requirement to obtain insurance or face a tax penalty — also features a lengthy list of exceptions for people facing certain hardships like foreclosure, domestic violence or homelessness. Members of certain religious sects or Native American tribes also are exempt.
But if the online system for getting into Obamacare coverage is rickety, the system for getting out of the mandate doesn’t even exist yet. HHS says it will take another month at least for the administration to finalize the forms.
The Obama administration estimates that as many as 12 million people will seek exemptions through the federal enrollment system. But if they try now through HealthCare.gov, a customer service representative will tell them that applications aren’t available.
To make it even more confusing, not everyone who is exempt from the mandate will have to prove it via the exchange. Millions of people will have straightforward income-related exemptions — for example, low-income people in states that aren’t expanding Medicaid. Their exempt status will get wrapped into their annual tax filing. But for those who want to start the exemption process online — or who incorrectly think they have to purchase health insurance or be fined despite their personal circumstances — the lack of a pathway has been another example that critics cite about how the White House bungled the rollout.
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I guess that lets Elizabeth Warren out.
While I believe someone abused in the home should get the maximum protections the law came provide, why a health insurance exemption?
Get the SOB locked away - that is a better use of tax dollars to benefit a victim of domestic violence.
Everyone is exempt. It is not a law passed by Congress, but is something modified by a judge and repeatedly modified by Obama.
Mass non-compliance.
Team Barry is a leaky sieve when it comes to classified military missions, classified weapons capabilities, outing of SEAL Team 6, etc.. How the F**K are we to trust them with our medical records? THIS is why Congress refused to comply with 0bamacare. EVEN THEY DON'T TRUST TEAM BARRY with their personal medical histories. I'm sure the NSA already has that info., anyway.
All it takes is ONE person to challenge this in court. Would the Supremes refuse to hear it? Probably.
Why - after 2 centuries or more - is racial preference being given to people who are typically only some meager % “native american”? And furthermore, DNA shows those that are called Indian today to be descendants of the most recent Bering land migration invaders who wiped out the original Indians? Maybe it is time they assimilate?
The USA govt. is racist against the white male population. And has been for decades.
“You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave!”
When she ran for Senate, the truth came out. She's as Indian as Adolf Hitler.
And just which “religious sects” do you suppose are exempt?
How has ObamaCare changed anything - other than increase the premiums on those who were already paying for healthcare?
My understanding was that the exempt status was going to be based, not on what you enter into the system up front, but what you report on your taxes for the prior year, per this article:
So I’m not sure if the OP article is correct. For example, as I understand it, say you joined a Christian health care co-op, and are therefore exempt by operation of law. You would never have to touch ObamaWare. You would simply file proof of co-op membership, no doubt on some new IRS form, and that would be that, until and unless the IRS questioned your information as filed.
Warren getting elected to the senate is proof the country is, and has been, on a downward spiral.
You bet. Even if it was Massachusetts.
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