For months, we’ve all thought that if we did not have Health Insurance, we had to get Obamacare of we would be penalized. Well, that’s not true!

42 USC § 18115 reads:

No individual, company, business, nonprofit entity, or health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall be required to participate in any Federal health insurance program created under this Act(or any amendments made by this Act), or in any Federal health insurance program expanded by this Act (or any such amendments), and there shall be no penalty or fine imposed upon any such issuer for choosing not to participate in such programs.
And, it is further explained that the Act referred to in 42 USC § 18115 is none other than, you guessed it: Obamacare!

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 111–148, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 119, known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 18001 of this title and Tables.

You can see it for yourself by going on the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Law Revision Counsel’s website for United States Code.

And, as a side note, Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Politifact Florida states:

“We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.” POLITIFACT FLORIDA

not sure how true this is, but here is the website here:
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section18115&num=0&edition=prelim