Reply #87: I have some serious issues with this.

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About "mandates:"

It's a choice issue. If we believe that each person has the right to choose when it comes to their own body, then we don't get authoritarian on their health choices. Choice and right to privacy are the underlying issues.

I probably, reluctantly, think that mandates should be in place for children until they are legal adults. Reluctant, because the only point to this is to protect them from bad, or neglectful, parenting. To give them a more equal start in life.

The technology piece is too reminiscent of big brother, and gives me the creeps, to say the least.

The option for private insurance is off my table, too. This does away with the whole point of universal health care, imo.