If you are uninsured you can pay a premium and get insurance (even if you are already diagnosed with something), or you can pay a penalty for not having insurance. But doing that doesn't get you any sort of insurance coverage.
And certainly haven't kept up on all things obamacare. But doesn't this mean that if you're poor and can't afford insurance, you get fined for being poor? Isn't that the exact opposite that Obamacare was put in place for?
CS/CpE. Yay engineering!