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I can see your point, e.g. forcing people to do anything seems like freedom lost.

On the other hand, those that do not have insurance at all are basically gambling with our money - we pay if they lose, we don't pay if they win - seems like a strange bet from our point of view and a good bet from their point of view. Let's face it, it's just like gambling - the odds must be in favor of the house or no gambling would take place - therefore, the house (government) needs to be paid over time - in some way - to offset "patient" bad bets - a simple way to do this with no additional expense would be to increase the payroll deduction relating to Medicare if the potential patient is not covered by insurance, possibly in addition to having patients maintain catastrophic coverage at a minimum.

There are lots of ideas out there, some good and some bad – ObamaCare is full of nothing but bad stuff.

Unfortunately, people have generally become fat and stupid within the last 20 years – electing Obama is clear evidence, but also – obesity has become the norm, diabetes is practically a pandemic in America, millions of Americans can’t even get it up (if you know what I mean – the entire nation is stressed out and millions of baby-boomers are starting to retire bringing to Medicare all kinds of medical issues and problems.

The bottomline is the fat and stupid people need to pay up. There is no free lunch.