text_1: If you want out of the individual mandate... all you have to do now is tick off the box that says 'hardship' and you're out.
text_2: "Krauthammer said people who don’t want to comply with the individual mandate should just ""tick off the box that says ‘hardship’ and you're out."" He is over-simplifying the process. Included in the hardship exemption application -- because there’s an application, you don’t just check a box on your tax form -- is a 14th category that reads kind of like ""other."" It’s meant to catch examples of hardship not delineated in the form. Documentation is requested if possible. Again, claiming it doesn’t mean you get it. You apply. And just because you ask does not mean you will receive."