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Originally Posted by dready
I don't get the US sometimes. If people are forced to pay anyway, why not just tax them and have public health care?
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I don't know this for sure, but I think the type of people they are targeting would be people who might get the healthcare really cheaply or would get big tax credits to help them pay for it then they don't buy it so they can pocket that money.
An exampl might be a company I used to work for. They gave each employee $100 per paycheck ($200 a month) to buy their insurance. There were several plans that you could choose from and the cost ranged depending on the coverage and number of people in your family. If you refused it, you just got the cash. There were several people I worked with that were covered under their spouse's insurance so the just pocketed the extra $200 a month.
I think this idea is to help avoid that type of thing happening. Still you make a good point. It seems our government has to go about everything the hard way. They could just give the person insurance and keep the cost of it out of their tax returns or something like that.