Individual mandate has little impact on decision to buy health insurance: Poll

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Most people with Obamacare plan to keep it even though the government will no longer punish them for going uninsured, according to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The organization’s polling showed that nine in 10 enrollees plan to keep their Obamacare coverage even though congressional Republicans repealed the fine for going uninsured as part of the tax bill that President Trump signed into law in December. Beginning in 2019, people are allowed to be uninsured without facing a penalty of 2.5 percent of income or $695 per person, whichever is higher.

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