The IRS Posts Obamacare Tax Implications, Report of 2015 Tax Year

In 2015:

• 5 million tax return filers received taxpayer support totaling $18 billion to buy their health plan. 
• 3.3 million return filers erroneously received too much taxpayer support to buy their health plan and must pay (or have already paid) back $2.6 billion. 
• 6.6 million filers took their spanking and paid a penalty for not buying government approved healthcare.  
• That total payment (labeled a tax not a penalty as you recall) amounted to $3 billion; 
• or an average of $457 per tax return.  

Source: IRS.