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Originally Posted by Sly
I haven't really been paying attention.
What happens if I don't purchase the insurance, I pay the penalty, and I need medical assistance? Who pays for that?
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You would buy insurance at the point you needed the medical assistance, because the insurance companies are not allowed to turn you away. The individual mandate is in place so that you don't just wait until you are sick to buy insurance, which would make the whole thing more expensive for everyone. They need healthy people to be insured in order for this all to financially work.