About 4 million people — including the estimated 1 million low-income Americans must to pay the Obamacare penalty for 2016.
So how is that promise for insurance for everyone working out?
A report last week from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 1 million Americans will be required to pay a penalty to the Federal government by the end of next year as a “tax” for declining to purchase health insurance under Obamacare’s individual mandate provision.
In all, CBO now expects about 4 million people — including the estimated 1 million low-income Americans who live below the government’s 200 percent poverty threshold — to pay the Obamacare penalty for 2016.
From the report:
“CBO and [the Joint Committee on Taxation] JCT’s estimates of the number of people who will pay penalties account for likely compliance rates as well as the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to administer and collect the penalty payments.
All told, CBO and JCT estimate that about 4 million people will pay a penalty because they are uninsured in 2016 (a figure that includes uninsured dependents who have the penalty paid on their behalf). An estimated $4 billion will be collected from those who are uninsured in 2016, and, on average, an estimated $5 billion will be collected per year over the 2017-2024 period.
Of the 1 million Americans the government regards as “low-income,” roughly 200,000 will earn gross income of less than 100 percent of the government’s poverty baseline; another 800,000 will earn less than 200 percent of the gross income poverty line, which places them in a category of low-income earners eligible to receive a host of Federal poverty entitlements. For a breakdown of how the Department of Health and Human Services assesses “poverty” as a ratio of household size to annual income, see the department’s 2014 poverty guidelines.
The CBO graph below illustrates the Obamacare penalty forecast as a function of income demographics:
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“In general, households with lower income will pay the flat dollar penalty (with adjustments to account for the lower penalty for children and the overall cap on family payments), and households with higher income will pay a percentage of their income,” the report indicates.
AND MY WIFE AND I ARE ONE OF THEM THAT WILL HAVE TO PAY !
VOTE ALL DEMOCRATS OUT .
Firstly, the penalty for an individual is $95 per year, or about $8 per month. We’re talking the price of a burger dinner at McDonalds. Secondly, In states that expanded Medicaid, you may qualify for Medicaid as a single individual if you earn less than about $16,000 a year. That would be free. So if your state decided to not partake of Medicaid, then you should be looking cross-eyed at your legislature, not the guy that’s trying to get everyone covered. If your income is higher than $16,000 in the states that do provide medicaid, there’s a sliding scale of payments, in most cases cheaper than the penalty. You’d have to be an idiot to whine about paying a little to get coverage in our Nation…Lord knows there are enough idiots though.
He says he is for the poor, but goes after the poor and he knew this was the out come when he had it in his little brain.
The Muslims don’t have to have insurance or pay penalties. ……In fact the American people pay for theirs.
I didnt vote for that did you?
Let them to try and collect $95 out of people. MFing commy jerk.
wouldnt get a penny out of me…. come make me you dumb bitches
cant pay if u dont have it ?????