posted December 05, 2013 01:57 PM            

The penalty in 2014 for remaining uninsured is $95 per adult and $47.50 per child or 1% of taxable income (up to $285 for a family), whichever is greater.

Fully 17% of U.S. adults currently do not have health insurance, according to Gallup. With the self-proclaimed holdouts who say they will refuse coverage, at least 5% of all U.S. adults will remain uninsured.

According to the nearly 4,000 interviews conducted with uninsured Americans since September, more than one quarter (26%) under the age of 30 say they are more likely to pay the fine, compared with 30% of those aged 30 and older.

The holdouts may be standing on political principles rather than being unable to afford coverage. Nearly half (45%) of uninsured Republicans plan to pay the fine, compared with 31% of independents and 15% of Democrats.

"For many uninsured Americans, particularly Republicans, the decision to pay the fine could be a form of protest against the law," Jeffrey M. Jones writes in an analysis for Gallup. "It is unclear whether that protest will extend only as far as their response to this survey question, or will extend to their actual behavior when the deadline to get insurance arrives."

Currently, 81% of uninsured Americans claim to be aware of the requirement to have insurance or pay a fine. Two thirds of those surveyed still say they are not familiar with the federal government health insurance exchanges.

Less than half (46%) of those who plan to get insurance say they will buy it through an exchange, while 36% say they will buy coverage elsewhere -- the remaining 17% are unsure.

"The fact that younger uninsured Americans are no more likely than older uninsured Americans to say they will pay the fine could be a positive sign for the law's ability to keep insurance affordable, assuming that the younger uninsured are no less healthy than the older uninsured," Jones says. "The biggest challenge to achieving universal coverage, however, may not be in making Americans aware of the requirement or in getting younger uninsured Americans to sign up. Rather, it may be getting those likely to oppose the law, namely Republicans, to overcome their ideological opposition to the law and sign up for insurance."

posted December 05, 2013 03:44 PM            

Interesting lowdown from a blogger who has "actually read the ACA" and is FOR the healthcare reform..

posted December 05, 2013 07:21 PM            

MANY many young people already have "pre-existing" conditions. Many more are happy to be insured for a pittance. And plenty of parents of 26 and other have already leapt at the chance to cover their kids.

posted December 05, 2013 09:03 PM            

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Originally posted by shura:
who are these young healthy people who don't want insurance? Think this one did? http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insurance-24-year-dies-toothache/story?id=14438171

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You can always find a needle in a haystack

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posted December 05, 2013 09:09 PM            

Dental coverage is HUGE.

posted December 05, 2013 09:40 PM            

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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
You can always find a needle in a haystack

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posted December 05, 2013 09:59 PM            

Iatrogenic illness is the 4th cause of death. It means DOCTOR caused. Wake up

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posted December 05, 2013 10:31 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Yeah, and the doctors' own AMA admits that almost all hysterectomies are unnecessary, but they do them anyway. Yes, insurance can be dangerous to your health. Who are these people who don't need insurance, you ask? Why, the ones who are going to pay the fine, instead, of course! Doctors prescribe medications in exchange for vacations and other perks. One of my friends (true story) was never sick a day in his life that I know of. He hurt his shoulder cutting branches off a tree. He went to the doctor to get a steroid shot. He died from a resulting staff infection a few days later. He joined about 600,000 plus others a year who go to a hospital for something minor and become a statistic.

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posted December 05, 2013 10:36 PM            

Most good doctors are appalled at what the insurance mill has done to medicine. But let anyone try to make honest men out of them and you cry foul.

As I've said before, ten minutes in the ER cost me $1100 last year. If I had been insured they would have run it into the thousands.