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Originally Posted by Gozer
The real issue, or "new tax" as its being called, is that people who chose to be insured have to pay for the costs of those who do not chose to be insured. The victims (i.e. those who's rights are being infringed upon) are the insured.
If you don't want to be insured, fine, but you can't opt out of having to help out with the costs of the uninsured. Thus, the fine.
If a fine for being uninsured "compels" people to sign up for (public or private) insurance then I don't see that situation as unpleasant nor that consumer a victim.
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Uh, if you don't have insurance, you pay for the health care, all of it, when you need it.
That is a risk you take. Like not having car insurance. Get into a wreck? You pay for it out of your own pocket.
Which is why I don't see the fine as anything else than a backhanded way by the government to force people into public insurance.