I can tell you were one of the "bright" ones that voted for Obama.
Yep. Twice. And I am so bright that the light often keeps me awake at night. One of those bothers I must suffer for being brilliant. Another such bother is having to deal with those who's critical thinking skills are a bit shallow.
This "shared responsibility payment" is no secret. If someone doesn't know about it by now then they are not paying attention to the universe around them and people like that are always getting into fixes, accidents and trouble and really need the insurance.
The fee is of no bother. What the law should have done was make that annual amount a monthly amount. Now
that would get some attention.
As long as we're talking about what the law
should have done, it should have made medical care available to everyone, citizen, visitor, green card or illegal and at no cost to the individual at the time of service.
We, the good ol' US of A, should declare before the entire world that access to effective medical care is not just a constitutional right but a
Human Right required to be provided by collective humanity.
Oooo, that would be expensive. How do we pay for it?
Confiscatory taxes. Yes, that's right, confiscatory. If you don't know what that means look it up. If you do know what that means then commence cringing.
If you make over $500K a year every dollar over should be taxed at 50%. And we go up from there. At $10 mil you fork over 80%. Same for corporate taxes, different amounts, of course, but the same principle. And we can finally do what should have been done decades ago and end this heretical, blasphemous policy of not taxing churches.
I hope that completes my picture for you.