Anyone who does not have it by 2014 will
pay a penalty on their 2015 taxes.
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the healthcare
mandate requiring most people to have health insurance by 2014, CBS reports.
The upheld provisions
include the individual mandate a provision allowing children to stay on their
parents' healthcare until they're 26.
A contributor to the Supreme Court liveblogwrote, "The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, with
the exception that the federal government's power to terminate states' Medicaidfunds is narrowly read."
Who voted for
what:
Pro: Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and swing-vote Chief
Justice John Roberts.
Dissent: Justices
Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito.
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