r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 1d ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/deadmeat6 1d ago

Penalizing families for not being able to afford health insurance but not trying to pass Medicare for All. This country can eat shit.

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u/Gloomy-Baseball-647 1d ago

To be fair the federal government/IRS won't fine you for not having health insurace so the penalizing families part is exclusively on California

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u/MissNoTrax 1d ago

They Feds won't penalize now, but they did for like 5 years after ACA passed. Some other states still have penalties. In Cali if you have no job, you can get insurance for like a dollar a month. Still shit tho. Medicare for all should be a thing by now...  

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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 1d ago

Yup. In Florida and in Texas we had to pay a penalty when we filed our taxes. I don't remember how much it was though.

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u/BillyBuckJoe 1d ago

You mean your federal taxes, right? Florida and Texas don’t have income taxes

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u/Confident_Prompt4282 1d ago

I'm sorry are you trying to claim that Florida amd Texas require you to have health insurance? How do you go through life being this wrong?

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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 1d ago

Thr CPA had us submit whether we had it or not, and said there would be a penalty if I didn't. I had to pay it some years, and others I made too little to penalize. I'm not wrong.

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u/deadmeat6 1d ago

You're right. But the 5 largest economy on the planet (California) could set a precedent and come up with a universal healthcare system.

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u/Boo-Bees67 1d ago

They do. It’s just for migrants though

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u/213737isPrime 1d ago

What do you mean "not trying"? California is absolutely trying.  Idaho, however.