Nobody is being FORCED to buy health insurance..what the administration seems to not get about ACA

[mike_c]

1. not so....

The issue is that everyone is being forced to make health insurance companies profitable. There are lots of countries that require citizens to carry health insurance but every one that I'm aware of either makes it unlawful to profit from that insurance OR they provide low cost public alternatives.

I am implacably opposed to for-profit health insurance. As you say, any prudent person who possibly can carries health insurance *in this country with it's regressive health care delivery system*-- in my case it's provided by my employer-- but I despise it and would LOVE to see my insurance company bankrupt, it's executives begging on the street (or doing productive labor somewhere instead), and it's assets seized to pay it's debts. I'm sick of the goddamned greed that EVERYTHING seems to revolve around in this country. It's time to get profit out of health care, and most especially to boot the middle men who serve no function other than siphoning off a large proportion of health care costs as personal profit made on the backs of the sick and injured.