Health care options for young, broke
WASHINGTON – They’re young, healthy and flat broke – and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twentysomethings do?
Well, some may just do nothing.
The annual fine for shrugging off the new federal insurance requirement, which is to begin in 2014, starts out at a relatively low $95, depending on income. That would be far cheaper than paying premiums.
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