"A penalty tax inequity in the Reid bill" By Keith Hennessey:
Under Leader Reid’s amendment, in the year 2019 about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per year. About eight million illegal aliens would be uninsured and would owe no penalty tax. Both groups would get their health care through a combination of out-of-pocket spending and use of uncompensated care in emergency rooms and free health clinics.
This seems unfair.
Details follow for those who care. Warning: the details get weedy quickly. You might want to skip them. I am including them mostly for experts and reporters who may want to follow up on this. If you are a policy amateur but have been reading this blog for more than a week or two, feel free to dive in. You can handle the complexity.
http://keithhennessey.com/2009/11/21/penalty-tax-inequity/
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