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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (27359)	9/21/2013 1:24:08 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

I found this twist interesting: • Hardship Exemption Clarified. The statute gives HHS authority to exempt individuals determined to “have suffered a hardship with respect to the capability to obtain coverage.” In developing these regulations, HHS considered several particular circumstances that provide good cause to go without coverage. To provide clarity for taxpayers facing these circumstances, the HHS regulations enumerate several situations that will always be treated as constituting a hardship and therefore allow for an exemption. Hardship exemptions include for example: o Individuals who an Exchange projects will have no offer of affordable coverage; and o Individuals who would be eligible for Medicaid but for a state’s choice not to expand Medicaid eligibility. This rule will protect individuals in states that, pursuant to the Supreme Court decision, decline to expand Medicaid eligibility despite the significant Federal financial incentives to do so. The HHS regulations also provide that the hardship exemption will be available on a case-by-case basis for individuals who face other unexpected personal or financial circumstances that prevent them from obtaining coverage.