Five % of Mass. taxpayers uninsured, some fined
By admin on Jun 6, 2008 in Featured
When filing State Income Taxes in Massachusetts this year, residents needed to show they had healthcare coverage. It’s not too bad a system for determining the number of people with coverage and the number of people who couldn’t afford it. But when it was determined that 100,000 people who could afford it chose not to, they were fined. The AP reports:
The state’s first-in-the-nation universal health insurance law required everyone in the state to be insured by July 2007, except for those who secured a waiver proving they couldn’t afford insurance.
Five percent of taxpayers failed to obtain health coverage last year, and more than half of those - about 97,000 - were forced to forfeit their personal exemption - worth $219 - after it was determined they could have afforded health care. Read the full article.
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