Reply #30: I fundamentally disagree that the people should be coerced in anyway by the government in the choice

[Hoof Hearted]

I fundamentally disagree that the people should be coerced in anyway by the government in the choices they make.

You are "coerced" every day in a thousand choices you make in ways that are designed for the benefit and order of a larger good. Each time you obey a stop sign, when you pay your sales tax at the drive-thru window, when you put your trash can out on the curb instead of dumping it in a pile on the street, when you fill out a new W-4 at work, when you repair your broken tail-light..........

There is a running theme for all of these kinds of systems, and that is that they don't really work unless everyone participates, and so it is with healthcare.