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Any tax or penalty associated with the funding of the Health bill is based on a sliding scale, just like Federal income tax sort of thing. If your on a fixed income, retirement funds, etc. I doubt you will see any increase on your personal taxes. No one is going to get "kicked out", arrested or fined because they cannot pay. They MIGHT be subject to any of the above if they REFUSE to pay when they could pay! Same as Federal tax, refusing to pay is a pretty serious offense that could land you in jail.
Business have an "opt out" provision with this National plan. In Hawaii every business, regardless of the number of employees, is required to provide health insurance. There is no "opt out" provision for them. With the National plan certain business with a large number of employees are required to provide coverage. OR, they can pay a fine based on the number of employees and "opt out" of buying coverage (which would surely piss off the employees). What will they do? Well each company will have to crunch the numbers and make an individual decision. Maybe it would be cheaper to pay the fine rather than buy the insurance.
I THINK the fine is about $750 a year per employee for a business. Extrapolating from there one could estimate the projected cost of a plan for an individual. It will be MORE for an individual than for a business with multiple empoyees. BUT using the 750 number you could estimate a policy would cost some where in that neighborhood for an individual.
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