With Respect To The Constitutionality Of The Mandate.

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. I have yet to see an apt comparison

and if there was one, we would have heard about it ad infinitum by now.

The draft is not compelling people to buy from a private company, and neither is income tax.

Home insurance is only required if you have a mortgage, and auto, if you own a car and drive it. You can't opt not to breathe.

On the flip side, eliminating the penalty on pre-existing conditions without mandating that healthy people buy insurance is a fast track to collapse of the system, and the people who need it most being priced out of the market before they even begin.

Of course, there is Medicare Part E - that COULD be mandated under Federal Law if the Legislature would cut ties to their lobbyists and see the ROI for the Good of We The People, but it is what it is right now.