I just don't get why people think that health insurance is optional. I don't mind the government being involved at all. I agree, as long as we see it as a business, and not a right, this will continue.
What bothers me the most is that some people I know (in other states, not here) will pay 200.00 a month for cable TV, but not for insurance. And quite a few of my son's friends, opted to risk the tax penalty for not having insurance, when they first got out of school, rather than hook up with one of the very good plans offered through our health care connector. We insisted our son buy it, as he had no benefits with his first job.