re: #200 subsailor68

Hi Desert Dog! From your post: If you do not, the IRS will come after you. The IRS!

That’s actually the most logical agency to track this, if the idea is a) to make insurance mandatory, b) verify that people have it by collecting the policy number, and c) verify that people are eligible for support based on lower incomes are identified.

It’s not a real efficient idea - but the only other agency I could see already set up to track this would be the Social Security Administration.

Neither one is a very good idea.

Not doing this at all is a very, very good idea!

The IRS does not have the ability to see if you are buying insurance right now. I would assume insurance companies would send in a form telling our friends at the IRS if Mr. or Mrs. Citizen has, in fact, purchased insurance. Then, if that does not show up on your return…well, ve hav vays of making you buy!