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Originally Posted by kane
Basically, here is how it works.
Under Obamacare everyone is required to have health insurance. Most people get it through their jobs. Those who don't must buy it on what they call an "exchange." What type of policies and how much they cost can vary greatly depending on which state you live in. Depending on how much money you make, you will get financial help from the government to pay for this insurance. If you don't have insurance, you will be fined by the government, but the fine is actually pretty small so there are a good number of healthy people who have just opted to not get insurance and wait for the fine.
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sounds like you Americans are just moaning about something most modern world countries do anyway.
As said, we pay NI in the UK, we all do, it's national insurance, it's health care. It pays for our medical costs & is usually about 10 to 20 out of our pay checks, self employed have to pay their own & when on social, it's not paid, but caught up when you get a job.
Our NI works out to about $450 a year. I don't get any one moaning about it, some thing needs to pay for the national care we get as people living in a modern world
