Every American citizen is now required to help make insurance corporations richer. Enjoy!

[joshcryer]

249. I don't understand why it's only 15 million people because 133% poverty is closer to 50 million.

I'm not sure where the figures are coming from. Maybe it has to do with households vs individuals. If that's the case it may be an incentive for households to register themselves as individuals in order to fall in 133% poverty.

For what it's worth my mom got cataract surgery without a co-pay. The co-pay was maybe 10% of the surgery. She's paid a decent amount of it back but as it stands now there's a rather large bill still outstanding. Note: my mom is in the bottom 1%, without it she would've had to simply "deal with it."

If you wish to continue living without insurance, simply get an Health Savings Account or simply make sure your deductions / withholdings aren't covered by the IRS. They can't touch you otherwise and this is rather easy to do.

But an HSA is a truly diabolical approach to things, as it is a Bush inspired "health care" scheme that is regressive to the core.