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I'm baffled as to why this new thing as well as the ACA didn't have major penalties.  [b]Switzerland gives 3 months to enroll and after that can garnish wages, assign an insurer, and charge back premiums.[/b]   Are the penalties still in the ACA?  How do people in the marketplace not know that medicare enrollment begins 3 months before turning 65 and after 7 months there are penalties and a delay in part B?

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/22/552506499/advocates-say-seniors-with-obamacare-need-more-time-to-switch-to-medicare

I wonder if some of these people were paying less under ACA than they would have under medicare-then saw potential premium increases.  Part B has huge jumps in premium.  85k or less is $134/month.   One penny over and it's 187.50- increase of $53.50/$642.  At the breakpoints the premium increase is greater than the magi increase.

I wish medicare was not income based.   It's not really insurance.  [/quote]
I think that would be unconstitutional, but I'm not sure. I know the penalty under the ACA was justified as a tax which is how you can get around constitutionality issues with having a penalty, but I doubt there is a constitutional way to force someone to buy insurance (which is what assigning an insurer and charging back-premiums amounts to). At best, I think, you can have a higher penalty that makes it financially non-sensical to not buy insurance.[/quote]

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