wheel wrote:
I am very very anti-government forcing us to do stuff. 

Unless it's the government mandating that women can't chose to have an abortion, or the government mandating who cannot get married. This is absolutely NOT like stopping food stamps because people "abuse the system." People who chose not to be insured, then have a medical emergency and cannot pay their bills are driving up the costs of medical care. How do you think that debt to the hospital is going to be paid? They HAVE to have money to operate. The costs have to be passed on somewhere else. 

The people complaining about this are people who don't have a clue how nerve wrecking it is to be without health insurance, or how frustrating it is to be denied medical coverage because you have a pre-exsisting condition. I was denied independent coverage because of medication I take for mild seizures - and I haven't had one in 10 years.