You don't get it. The "mandate' or more appropriately described tax penalty is accompanied by tax credits which means if you truly cannot afford the premiums, they will be partially or fully offset by a lower withholding from your paycheck or even a tax refund beyond withholdings for the extremely poor. If you can afford it, you should have insurance lest you offload your emergency care costs and overall higher cost of servicing to those who do. You are not required to but if you don't, it is entirely reasonable you pay a tax to support the higher cost of service you are imposing upon the rest of us.

You will get tax credits based upon your income. This means that lower income workers will have up to 100% of their premiums offset either through a lower income tax bill or tax refund. Also, since this is a tax credit similar to the EIC, you may be eligible for a refund even if you had nothing withheld for federal income taxes.

That's because by the time they had a fully functional system, there were so many obscure configurations, custom scripts, and dirty hacks required that they are the only one who knows how to administer it.

Not only that but another big turn off is that documentation often tends to be non-existent, incomplete, confusing, or simply wrong then, to make matters worse, when inexperienced users venture into the forums looking for guidance, the replies are usually along the lines of RTFM emphasized with varying degrees of condescension. Very rarely will you find a simple, clear set of instructions on how to perform a specific procedure. New users need hand holding but the Linux community will more often than not just throw them to the wolves.

They could have absolved themselves of liability by simply issuing a correction in a much more low profile fashion. By doing so in the manner they are, they are making a point of journalistic integrity.

It's a fair criticism. NPR, when faced with evidence that they presented misleading information immediately took appropriate steps to remedy the mistake. Fox News on the other hand has been repeatedly caught with their hands in the cookie jar and the response is always the same: first try to brush it under the rug and hope nobody notices and should that fail, make every attempt possible to discredit the whistleblower.

This in in clear contrast to organizations claiming to be journalistic enterprises, [I' looking at you Fox News] where when presented with evidence of factually incorect or misleading reporting will instead attack whoever exposes the truth.

To be fair, at least the show's producers acknowledge the mistake, are willing to present a full retraction, and are doing so in the same forum and with equal prominence as the original story. If the same had happened on Fox News, the likely reaction would have been a coordinated attack on whoever brought the truth to light.

Which is essentially what the United States would be also if the teabaggers had their way.

I always just purchase a cradle that can charge an extra battery. I then purchase 3 or 4 extra batteries. I stick one in my car, one in my laptop bag, one goes in my back pocket, and one stays on the charger.In this way I just have to swap out the battery when it dies. I always have a charged battery at hand and I never have to have my phone on a charger. A battery will usually last 12-24 hours but heavy use and bluetooth can shorten this considerably. They only take an hour or so to charge so if I use more than one while I am away from the charging cradle it is not difficult to catch up so all the extras generally stay charged.

Very well stated! The grandparent poster is thoughtlessly parroting talking points put forward by corporate sponsored propaganda outlets like The Drudge Report, Fox News, and the like. They have it down to a science. They take an isolated fact, strip it of context, frame it in a manner that supports their false narrative, then pound it into the heads of people like grandparent who, thanks to underfunded schools, never learned critical thinking skills and have been trained to think of fact based information outlets as "the liberal media."

Most expensive of all however would be th impoud fees. If you park on Market they'll tow your car in minutes even if there isn't a demonstration going on.

This is the single greatest misconception about the whole "mandate" issue. The fact is that there is no provision in the law that makes it an offense to not purchase health insurance. The so called mandate is merely a tax penalty imposed on those who fail to do so. If you do not wish to buy insurance you don't have to. You just pay the penalty. Congress can write the tax code pretty much any way it sees fit. There is nothing unconstitutional about it.