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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16039)4/2/2010 11:09:27 PM
From: TimF4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
I can give you two examples immediately......Austria, and Massachusetts.

Similar plans do not equal the same plan.

Also there are many other differences between Austria and the US, or between MS and some other randomly selected state.

And the fines will be a percentage of your income which will escalate if you defy the law.

Every source I've seen has them capped in the hundreds of dollars range. The percentage of income is I believe the maximum not the minimum. If the $xxx dollar figure is larger than y% of your income than you only pay y% of your income, but if its not, you pay the $xxx dollar figure, not the percent of your income however high it may be.

if you defy the law... I thought the RW was very law abiding??

Its an unconstitutional law.

Also paying the penalty called for by the law may be reasonably considered to not be defying it.

Also its not an issue of the right wing or the left wing not paying, its a practical economic decision not a political one. People with all sorts of politics including the fairly apolitical, will have reason to pay the penalty rather than buy insurance, and even perhaps to neither pay the penalty nor buy insurance unless enforcement is rather strict.
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