how many people paid the obamacare penalty
Preliminary figures from the IRS show that about 7.5 million people paid up to $1.5 billion and another 12 million received a low-income exemption to Obamacare's individual mandate penalty. The law requires a taxpayer to pay a penalty of $95 or 1 percent of yearly income, whatever is higher, if he doesn't have insurance.
Carolyn Kaster/AP. About 7.5 million Americans paid an average penalty of $200 for not having health insurance in 2014 â the first year most Americans were required to have coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday.