US Health Insurance?

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• sarahfailin0

  As a (presumably) documented immigrant to the US with legal status, you MUST obtain health coverage in the US or else pay a penalty on your income taxes when you file. You can do this either through the federal marketplace www.healthcare.gov or through your state's exchange, if your state has an exchange.

  If you do not have health coverage for 3 or more consecutive months in the year 2015, then you will pay a penalty of 2% of your income above $10,150 or $325 per person without coverage in your household, whichever is GREATER.

  The purpose of the penalty is to make it as expensive NOT to have coverage as it is TO have coverage, so you'd better get covered! ;)

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  • Oh and you have to do it within 3 months of arriving or else you must wait until Nov. 1 when open enrollment starts again.sarahfailin
  • That's a foul purpose to impose such a penalty... so foul that our current administration lied about it up front because they knew most would find it ridiculousPonyBoy

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