There has been a penalty for not buying car insurance for as long as I can remember. You are forced to buy it.
Nope. That is a fee to drive your car on the street without insurance. It provides no insurance.
So you're saying it's exactly the choice some people make regarding paying a penalty and getting no health insurance.
Dear Arianrhod
If this was the FEDERAL GOVT dictating what constituted exempted insurance coverage, to the point people were losing access to affordable insurance and started having to pay more for options they didn't need
AND PAY FOR INSURANCE BEFORE THEY WANT TO BUY AND USE IT
And if this was the FEDERAL GOVT creating a whole bureaucracy for collecting registration information on all citizens in order to manage everything through central govt instead of leaving it to the states,
then YES it would cause similar problems as now with ACA trying to regulate citizens from a federal level
instead of allowing local representation, voting and management of policies and staying out of people's business.
So it's okay if the state government dictates terms, but not the federal.
It's 'not ok' in either case. But if it was limited to the states, 'We the People' would have a better chance of correcting it.