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How Young People Can Avoid Obamacare

The Daily Caller has published tips on how young people can save money by avoiding Obamacare:

Millions of young Americans could save money by simply paying Obamacare penalties rather than buying insurance when the controversial health-care law is implemented in 2014, according to a new study.

“Millions of single, childless adults will save at least $500 by forgoing insurance and paying the fine in 2014. The problem is that to be viable, the exchanges need these ‘young invincibles’ to participate,’” said David Hogberg, health-care policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research, which conducted the study.

In 2014, millions of single, childless Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 will be better off paying a $95 individual mandate penalty or one percent  of their income (defined as a “tax” by the Supreme Court) than buying insurance, according to the study…

If enough young people decline to buy insurance and take the penalty instead, the administration’s fears of a rate-hiking “death spiral” would become a reality, according to Hogberg’s findings.

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