Religious Exemptions from InsuranceCare
January 11th, 2010Via: Watertown Daily Times:
Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine.
Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.
The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a “religious conscience” exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.
Although the Amish consist of several branches, some more conservative than others, they generally rely upon a community ethic that disdains government assistance. Families rely upon one another, and communities pitch in to help neighbors pay health care expenses.
Research Credit: ottilie
Another good reason to join the Amish. If I could just find a work around for that Sunday meeting thing, I would join up.
Wow.
(a) That this is possible.
(b) That the general direction of spin is that this is ‘the bill that will be passed’ not ‘the bill being debated’.
Mandatory health insurance will go quicker in the way that mandatory car insurance has already gone. Billboard in my area selling car insurance reads “We keep you legal”. Not “We keep you covered/insured/eligible to receive money in the event of an accident”, “Legal”.
Now everyone can get nothing for a lot of money every month, and have to.