Even if it saves my life, the government has no right to force me to take any insurance, unless required for a license for something I choose, like driving a car. My greatest objection to health care managed by any government is that I have no choice about which doctor I will see or what treatment will be paid. If I believed doctors I would have already been dead four times, but instead I make my own choice of something better that insurance would not pay for anyway. Whatever the insurance covers should be 100% our own choice, especially not any government dumb rule.
Your ignorance should be your greater concern, as the ACA doesn't 'force' anyone to have insurance.
WHAT?
Where are you getting this
C_Clayton_Jones
The WHOLE controversy is over whether the federal govt
has the right to impose a TAX PENALTY if people choose other means of paying for health
care besides the prescribed insurance or approved exemptions that are very narrow.
While giving exemptions to people, including govt officials who have their insurance paid for by taxpayers.
Great! If you are saying we are NOT required to buy insurance
to avoid a 1% fine paid to the IRS then there is NO CONFLICT.
OK
C_Clayton_Jones I am happy to make a bet with you.
If you claim there is no coercion such as tax penalty to make peole buy insurance,
then let's sign an agreement that for all the people who refuse to buy insurance
then YOU agree to pay their penalties for them to show there is no such penalty.
Are you willing to pay the difference? That's wonderful if you believe in free choice
and are willing to cover any penalty that might otherwise be imposed by federal govt on someone's free choice!
If you cannot afford this yourself, I am happy to help you set up
a fundraising site and account to pay all the fines "that don't exist"
for people who don't believe federal govt has the authority to make you buy insurance under penalty of tax fines.
Super!
And CCJones if you mean that all people are under this "tax"
and it's only that exemptions are given for insurance, that's still DISCRIMINATORY
because
1. it only exempts people who buy the govt approved insurance and doesn't exempt
people who want to invest in other means of health care, such as teaching hospitals or medical service internships and facilities
2. the taxes only go into the govt regulated health care and aren't deductible by an equal
choice to fund other means of health care, including spiritual healing to prevent crime and disease
and to cover more people with the same resources
So this is still penalizing people on the basis of creed, where the money spent on health
care is FORCED to go into systems regulated by govt even if this is AGAINST PEOPLE'S BELIEFS
It imposes "punitive prohibitive" measures to prevent people from
investing in health care solutions other than the BELIEFS approved of by the party that passed this bill.
but fine, if you really believe that is the only way anyway to pay for health care
so it isn't forcing or fining anyone who would "use these means anyway"
then let's set up a fund and you can pay the fines of all the people who opt to invest
in other means of providing health care BESIDES govt mandated insurance we don't believe in
as the only way.
Are you really willing to pay the difference? That's great, I will help you raise the money to do so.
I believe in free choice and don't believe free choice should be penalized by taxes while other
choices are exempted.