There is no Individual Mandate requirement in the Health Care bill. Republicans are lying to you.

Let everyone you care about know about this bamboozle. Lawrence O'Donnell reads the ACTUAL language from the ACTUAL individual mandate section of the tax bill in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. There is no individual mandate requirement. Once again, politicians do not read the important bills they should know cold.

Why should you listen to Lawrence O'Donnell? Lawrence O'Donnell wrote this kind of language as a Senate staffer.

From Wikipedia: "[F]rom 1993 to 1995, he [O'Donnell] was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, once again under Senator Moynihan's chairmanship. He thus led the staff of the Senate's tax-writing committee during the consideration of President Bill Clinton's first budget, which Congress enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993."

EDIT - June 28, 2012

After the Supreme Court decision today, I downloaded and searched the full language of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from www.healthcare.gov/law/full:

By Justice Roberts insisting in his decision today that the mandate was a tax, he confirmed the language that O'Donnell reads (correctly) in this video starting at 2:25 minutes. Let me be clear: by insisting that the mandate is a "TAX," Roberts caused the language below to kick in as the law of the land. The bottom line is that you don't have to buy health insurance. There is no tax you have to pay. There is no penalty. You will not suffer, BY LAW, any action from the IRS.

HERE IT IS:

Locate it on PAGE 151 OF SECTION 1502, or page 170 of the PDF. LOOK IT UP YOURSELF.
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(g) ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The penalty provided by this section
shall be paid upon notice and demand by the Secretary, and
except as provided in paragraph (2), shall be assessed and collected
in the same manner as an assessable penalty under subchapter
B of chapter 68.
(2) SPECIAL RULES.—Notwithstanding any other provision
of law—
(A) WAIVER OF CRIMINAL PENALTIES.—In the case of
any failure by a taxpayer to timely pay any penalty imposed
by this section, such taxpayer shall not be subject to
any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such
failure.
(B) LIMITATIONS ON LIENS AND LEVIES.—The Secretary
shall not—
(i) file notice of lien with respect to any property
of a taxpayer by reason of any failure to pay the penalty
imposed by this section, or
(ii) levy on any such property with respect to
such failure.
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Ergo, you don't have to buy zip.

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[arjhen2021]

if you got no way to pay you're not subject to a penalty..

[DamanHunter981]

MrHatfield - The IRS DOES have the ability to apply refund to unpaid balances. In order for a refund to exist, there must be an overpayment. This means your taxes on the return take the money and, if there is any left, it can be applied to other tax balances. If there are no other IRS balances, then it may be subject to offset through the Treasury Offset Program and applied to things such as state balances, student loan balances, back child support, and few other governmental offsets.

[MrHalified]

When you don't pay the penalty, they apply your tax refund to it. If you come up short, they will apply your taxes next year to it. When your taxes come up short, the IRS will "suggest" that you pay your taxes now due or else...and you know the way they "suggest." I love the way Lying Larry "lies" while telling you the truth.

[MrHalified]

This has nothing to do with reducing the cost of care. This is about giving more money to the banks and insurance companies (which are really the same) and gaining more control over people. They gave trillions to the bankers in the bailout. They gave the bankers enough to make millionaires out of us all.

[MrHalified]

The IRS is allowed to apply any refund due you to the penalty. The next year when you pay your "taxes" that money can be applied to the penalty. If you come up short on your taxes, then they certainly can levy and fine--but it will be technically for taxes due, not for the penalty. When they turned this over to the IRS, they were paying hardball for all of their smoke and mirrors.

[Bill Wetzel]

Sorry, I meant The Ed Show segment.

[Bill Wetzel]

I was referring to the commenter who obviously lied about losing all his benefits etc etc. Not about the video itself, which I did check back when I saw the Last Word segment when it first aired.

[BubbaLouis]

You are an idiot if you haven't downloaded the full text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and verifying it yourself. I updated the text for this video to reflect the actual text FROM THE ACT ITSELF that proves what O'Donnell says.

[Bill Wetzel]

lol I know, that guy is posted one of the worst lies I've ever seen, lol. Ridiculous.