Reply #19: As I understand it, people are equating the penalty fee for not buying insurance to a tax.

[Demit]

I don't care about the semantics. The objection I have is that I don't have insurance b/c I can't afford it. If I can't afford insurance—which I would very much prefer to have—how in God's name am I going to cough up a penalty fee?

I don't know what will happen to me if I get very sick. It's not a lark I'm on though. I'm not exactly buying Manola Blahnik shoes instead of health insurance. So let me die in the street. Just walk past me. After all, I wasn't as clever as you to have made sure to somehow have gotten health insurance. I deserve to writhe in pain and die then.