Administration Preps to Enforce Health Insurance Mandate
The Obama administration took new steps Wednesday toward implementing the individual mandate in its signature healthcare law, downplaying the scope of the unpopular provision by stressing rules that allow exemptions from the requirement to purchase insurance.
The Internal Revenue Service and the Health and Human Services Department emphasized exceptions to the mandate, which were detailed in new regulations that also laid out the process by which the IRS will calculate penalties for going uninsured.
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..."rules that allow exemptions from the requirement to purchase insurance."...
I presume these include the requirement to bow before the emperor and beg special dispensation.
Or, as in past church practice, perhaps a donation of a certain amount will get you out of purgatory?