Taxpayers forked over $3 billion to the federal government in 2015 because they didn’t have health insurance, under Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty.

The Internal Revenue Service told Congress Monday that about 6.5 million taxpayers paid the penalty for not having insurance in 2015. The individual mandate, which forces people to have insurance, would be repealed under Republicans’ plan to gut the law.

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