The way I've understood it is that people unable to pay won't be penalized. It will go through the IRS. 

My understanding is that people with incomes up to 400% of the poverty level will receive supplements to help them buy health insurance. People with up to 150% of the poverty level will pay nothing at all. And of course many individuals get supplements through their employer to purchase health insurance.

People without health insurance will be fined, up to 2.5% of their income. Not paying this fine is like not paying your income tax. The penalties listed above are the same if you don't pay income tax.

The Republican Health Care Proposal doesn't mandate that everyone buy insurance, but doesn't cover hardly any more people either. And it doesn't prevent insurance companies from denying coverage or increasing rates based on pre-existing conditions.

Total fiction, have disproven this shit on like three blogs already.

Here's a post I made on another blog:

You would have to make over half a million
dollars a year AND the cost of the average healthcare plan would have
to exponentially multiply for this to be true.  Otherwise someone
making say 20,000 a year would pay about $275 a year, and that's only
if they don't have health insurance to begin with.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/text

Above is a link to the healthcare bill named in this letter.

Note
that the last section is section of the bill is section 3205, and that
the above letter is quoting 7201 and 7203, supposedly of the healthcare
bill.

Now hit CTR+F to bring up the search function (on the page
or tab with the healthcare bill).  Search for "2.5" (minus quotes). 
The first hit should be 72.5, ignore that and click to see the next
one, it should be under the section 59B.  This is the section that
details the tax on people without "acceptable" health insurance.  Note
that it defines what is acceptable and all pre-existing or
"grandfathered" policies, medicare, medicaid, VA benefits, etc and any
policy that meets the minimum requirements are included.  Basically if
you have any insurance at all you're exempt from the tax.  Note also
that it says the tax cannot be more than the average cost of a health
insurance policy, meaning the average cost of an insurance policy would
have to be $15,000 for the above claim to be true.  Also note that it
cannot exceed 2.5% of your adjusted income (after your 7k or so
deductible), so if someone made $14,000 in a year (twice their likely
deductible) they would get health insurance for about 1% of that, or
roughly 140 dollars a year.  Furthermore, do the math, the maximum tax
is 2.5% of your annual income, and 15,000 is 2.5% of 600,000.

@agnophilo@xanga - Thanks for posting that. It's been disproven all over but people don't like to listen, apparently.

@whitetrashpoet@xanga - @MangoWOW@xanga - You're welcome.

Almost every "criticism" of the healthcare bill is a simple lie.  But a lot of die-hard conservatives keep going back to the same sources after it's demonstrated over and over and over that they are making shit up.  Conservativism in some cases seems more pathological than ideological.

Or maybe I'm blaming the symptom for the disease, I don't know.

Well, regardless of the smoke and mirrors (and there are plenty on both sides of the isle) forcing people to pay for health insurance will never fly. It will be struck down constitutionally by the Supreme Court. Flies in the face of our Constitution. Health Care is not a right, not a privelege, not provided for under the Constitution. It is a power grab, however, by liberal minded people who want to exert control over the multitudes, and empower themselves and create bureaucracy to enable themselves to keep hogging at the Public Trough. Fact is, government has never been good at running anything for the masses. Look what they did to Amtrack, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. All these programs either cost more than they provide or are bankrupt. The Health Care industry is not the problem in this country, paying for it is. Tort reform is where the change needs to start. Get these blood sucking lawyers out of here and start capping medical malpractice suits and awards, and yes, if necessary, regulate drug companies. Hard to justify the CEOs making millions or billions when the average schmuck can't afford insurance. Competition will bring that into balance, if regulators and lawyers and gov'ment would get out of the way. Allowing insurance to be sold across state lines, etc. Lots of crappy restrictions that if lifted, would have a huge impact on the situation, but that is being ignored. But hey! Change, change, change, oh yes we can!