FatUglyZittyGirl wrote:
I would go into debt. But shouldn't that be my choice? And that's not the reason that I must be insured, as olphelia stated. It's for the community. By paying I will be helping those who can't afford insurance get it subsidised. Life is expensive enough and I don't qualify for any assistance so therefore I will have to pay full. I'm in that middle class sect that gets screwed.

Isn't that like people who work who have money taken out of the paychecks to help those who don't work get their food stamps?  I don't qualify for that either yet I have to pay for others to get it.