"...first time the government has forced us to buy a product" MY ASS!

[TheKentuckian]

66. In each example there is no universal mandate.

I never ever have to get a hunting license, visit a park, or even drive.

In each example you are being regulated in how you act within a voluntarily entered and optional agreement and at no time was your participation assumed or is the assumed participation a condition of being alive and human.

"The Deal" is yours and others forceful arguments that health care is a commodity, a privilege based on ability to pay, or at best an obligation to the community paid as a tithe to private profiteers in the defense of the codification of such.

"The Deal" is also that you tell something like 85% of us that we are not only obligated for our tithes to some corporations overpaid executives and stockholders but we don't even get to go on our tax dollar funded marketplace and to take whatever our employer select while taking advantage of our tax dollar funded incentives and tax breaks. Hell, it is our damn compensation, we should be able to take our incentives and employer contribution or fine for lack there of and vote with our pocketbooks.
My employer has ZERO bearing on my car insurance, or which National Parks I visit, or if I hunt or fish and certainly has no input on (much less strictly decides) what I would hunt and fish for if choose to do either nor am subject to a sanction for illegally hunting even if bag nor indeed shoot at any thing (unless somebody runs with Robert's conflation of tax and penalty and someone ends our tax break for not hunting illegally and suddenly we all get what used to be the penalty).