 administration adds major exemption for obamacare individual mandate a new exemption to the individual mandate has dramatically expanded the pool of people who could avoid paying a penalty if they do not sign up for health care the exemption added to the application document late in december allows practically anyone to claim it is a hardship to buy health insurance and exempt them from paying the penalty will this undermine and eventually sink obamacare read more  wwwfoxnewscom politics 20140313 administrationaddsmajornewexemptionforobamacareind  