The government will pay for those who don't have money, just like we do now for the 60 million people on Medicaid. Obamacare adds another 11 to 15 million more to the rolls. The states pay half the cost. In the bill, poor people are automatically enrolled in the Medicaid system if they show up at a hospital without insurance. And the check to see if they are citizens is non-existent.
The IRS will go after the people who can afford health insurance and choose not to. They will have to pay a fine or go to jail.
Correction, the taxpayers will be forced to pay for those the government deems don’t have enough money to afford insurance, and the IRS will go after those the government deems can afford insurance but chose not to purchase it.
Just because they used a straight up or down vote doesn’t mean the deemin’ demons aren’t still at the heart of this thing.
Remember the AMT was supposed to target “the rich”, but plenty of us solidly middle class folk get hit with it (and even when we don’t have to fill out the d*mned extra forms to prove we don’t)? Same thing with this.
I’m willing to bet the cutoffs for the “cadillac tax” on high coverage health plans (defined by their cost not their benefits) are not indexed to inflation, and even if the are, it will only slightly delay the time when the increased cost of coverage created by this monstrosity push magically turn “chevy” employer provided health coverage into “cadillac” coverage.