2 Exceptions to the rule.

• Position: STATELINE - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Brief article

Seeking to ease concerns over the "individual mandate"--the controversial part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires most taxpayers to have health insurance or pay a fine--the Obama administration issued new rules clarifying exemptions to the provision. The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stressed that only taxpayers who can afford insurance but choose to go without it for a significant period of time will be freed, starting in 2014. Exemptions will apply to people who can't afford insurance, illegal...