'Holding his feet to the fire' is just fine.

[Dragonfli]

92. I can't discuss this with you because you need to understand

the definition of the word mandate, you seem to think it is incentive based, if that were the case it would not actually be called a mandate. Or perhaps you don't know what an incentive is, that would mean you would get some sort of reward for doing something you don't have to do, like if I have insurance, I get a tax break, the purchase of an EV for example is incentive based, you get a large tax credit for doing so.

One is a carrot, one is a stick, you appear to have the two confused. It could have been written as an incentive program, but it was written as a mandate, an incentive based law never would have made it to the Supreme court.

You also need to learn what the phrase "enforcement mechanism" means. It would allow you to actually discuss what is the best method to enforce this mandate, which would be helpful in discussion (at least if you want to do it well).
A fine, even if collected by the IRS is still an enforcement mechanism for a mandated purchase.

Study a dictionary so you can discus this better, OK, I will wait and address this again when you learn more.

There is also the fact that the law that we Democrats squashed like a stink bug in '93 is far more similar than you appear to believe, the only difference that can be gleaned from reading the past and current enacted version is that there is a small amount of increased regulation in the current version of this law, nothing to write home about. Read it for yourself, and have a dictionary ready, it takes time to understand this crap, I have been an active bill reading Democrat for 35 years, it is not learned in a day.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/February/23/GOP-1993-health-reform-bill.aspx