Is Health Insurance Subsidized? 
All Americans will be required to have health insurance , but not all will pay for health insurance . The health care legislation is based on means testing , so the poor wont pay anything and the middle class could have subsidies . Because it is a federal program , all shortfall of the legislation will be paid be federal tax payers , i.e. only half the country . Starting in 2014 Obamacare will be operational . Its success or failure will drive the 2014 midterm elections . 