Reply #6: What we need is national healthcare - not insurance

[askeptic]

This is why the industrialized world extracts taxes to pay for a nationalized health care system and the fact you are a citizen entitles you to the care -- there is no need for this blood-sucking middleman called insurance at all. Until we are ready to face that fact, we will just see a lot of thrashing about. I am also not convinced that the mandate is Constitutional. The government under the Constitution has the power to collect taxes, and I can find nowhere that they have the power to mandate citizens to spend money in a directed way in the private sector.