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Ron,
I understand your concern about being told to buy an insurance plan. Being told what to do by the government never sits well with me.

Have you looked at the MA regs on this sort of thing? Romney did up the initial plan with some (good and bad) tweaks by the legislature. There are still problems, but it also offers some interesting ideas.

One of them is that everyone will have an insurance plan or they will pay a fine (I think this is done annually - we now have to file an insurance coverage certificate with out taxes). Romneys original plan mandated that you either post a bond that would be used if health care is needed, or you are enrolled in a plan.
The plan can be anything from just basic catastrophic coverage to whatever your silver spoon can get you.

I would rather they had kept the bond option in addition to the other two.

I'm not fond of being forced to do anything like this, but too many people are abusing the system, and the taxpayers are paying for it.

Steve