It's much like mandatory car insurance. Sure, you can drive without it, but God help you in most states if you're without it.
Lots of us have to buy mandatory insurance.
For instance, if I do not pay my home owners insurance the bank I owe will foreclose or demand I pay the note in full with in 60 days. No one forced me to buy my home or to agree to the banks regulations.
If I were to move to down town Boston I could take public transportation and sell my car, it is my choice to own a car but I must have insurance to drive it
This health insurance thing gives people no choice.
They say for now at least, that we can keep what ever insurance plan we want for a number of years until we are mandated to switch over to the Federal Plan.
So if one is 23 today and gets a good job with health benefits they can afford, when they hit 33 then they are at the Mersey of the government as to what they will pay, who you will have treat you and what tests you are allowed.
Who will be exempt from this law, the Ghetto folk who get State aid, the illegals, believe me there will be exemptions built in that everyone will miss for a couple of years.
That 2,000 page monstrosity had hundreds to pages of rules and regulations that we will no know about until the Government decides to pull them out of the middle of the pile and announce---BUT-BUT, its the LAW.
This issue is so confusing to everyone, how anyone thinks the average man on the street is going to give up his Friday night of Bowling to spend the weekend with that thing in their lap, a coppie the the Constitution in right hand and a dictionary in the left is NUTS.
BTW, please keep it up DL, everytime you are corrected for a mistake by the old timers
who respond to you, I am getting an education. Oh and I can read you DL, when you begin to show disrespect for your elders that is worthy of a gutter snipe, then I know for sure you are wrong.
BBTW-------You have said your dad is a Lawyer.? When does he get out and how many years has he been in the joint. If I had a foul mouth kid like you and I was a lawyer I would have divorced your mother years ago.