When it comes to health insurance — or rather, not having health insurance — money talks.

That's the finding from Gallup, which concluded that higher fines in Obamacare will compel many uninsured Americans to sign up for health coverage, indicating that PPACA's incentives could work in getting more people covered.

For a $95 fine — the amount for not having insurance in 2014 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — uninsured Americans are as likely to say they would not get insurance (46 percent) as to say they would (47 percent).

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