{"id":14741,"date":"2019-12-13T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:34:34","slug":"californians-without-health-insurance-will-pay-a-penalty-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14741","title":{"rendered":"Californians Without Health Insurance Will Pay A Penalty \u2014 Or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Californians, be warned: A new state law could make you liable for a hefty tax penalty if you do not have health insurance next year and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>But some of you need not worry: The law contains several exemptions that will allow certain people to avoid the penalty, among them prisoners, low-income residents and those living abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be really important that people get clear guidance and instruction to make sure they don\u2019t inadvertently pay a penalty when they are eligible for an exemption,\u201d says Laurel Lucia, director of the Health Care Program at the University of California-Berkeley\u2019s Center for Labor Research and Education.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/californians-without-health-insurance-will-pay-a-penalty-or-not\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News) Californians, be warned: A new state law could make you liable for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14742,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions\/14742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}