Is the health-care mandate a tax?

By 2016, $695, or 2.5 percent of income, is the maximum for individuals. For families, it is $2,085, or 2.5% of household income.

 

http://factcheck.org/2012/06/how-much-is-the-obamacare-tax/

 

Because the cost of those 50 million people when they do go to the hospital is extraordinarily expensive. It costs a lot more money to treat a heart attack than it does to treat hypertension.

It is CHEAPER for all of us if those 50 million pay a bit for health care and get preventive care than it is for them to just shop up to a hospital in an emergency situation and not pay anything so that billions of dollars they cost gets passed on to us.

You already pay a penalty tax for not having low energy lights. It's called an energy tax.

 

Only 1.2% of Americans will pay the [penalty/tax]...

http://www.scoop.it/t/coffee-party-...age?hash=27581d7a-5525-49c0-93aa-97c0d38eaf09

 

Gotcha. What I read was worded poorly.