It may be the decent thing to do Jay, but in all seriousness, forcing people to purchase health insurance regardless of their health is not decent!

Whatever line of reasoning you manipulated to draw that conclusion (conformity seems appropriate) that criminalizes (fined for not having insurance) individuals for not purchasing insurance irrespective of their health conditions is tantamount to slavery!

Why not have a for profit healthcare insurance industry? Ever heard of competition? Consumer demand? What exactly do you require to accept insurance agencies as trustworthy? Complete control of that particular industry itself? Socialism seems to bring about the worst in people;

-But even before the president spoke, the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America — whose $26.1 million lobbying effort in 2009 was the most expensive by any industry lobby in history — hailed the health package as “important and historic.”

The second-biggest industry lobby in America, the American Medical Association, also cheered, as did the American Hospital Association, the No. 5 industry lobby. Throw in the goliath senior lobby AARP and Beltway powerhouse General Electric, and you realize Obama’s underdog tale is all bark and no bite.-

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-gives-sugar-plums-to-the-special-interests-88958037.html#ixzz0jXN0KZrA

Whatever freedoms you gave away to accept the governments role as competitor, and referee, within the healthcare industry (and numerous others) only solidifies your conformity with this issue.

You’ve been completely duped into that false sense of blame which so vehemetly claims that insurance agencies are the culprit of rising healthcare prices and not their pocketed politicians.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-gives-sugar-plums-to-the-special-interests-88958037.html#ixzz0j8huth0d

But it isn’t that simple is it? There are conservative points that don’t properly address the situation either as well.

http://marcstevens.net/component/content/article/229.html

So, to state it again, healthcare insurance industries are only reacting to the policies already in place forcing them to deal with those regulations with higher costs passed onto the consumer. There is no other way around that (no matter how you spin it). Constraints to those industries brought upon by special interest groups, and deep pocketed corporations, lobbying congressional members including this presidential administration is what promotes those higher healthcare costs not the insurance industry itself.

This problem is not exclusive to one side of the political spectrum alone, both sides have pressure group funds to exploit, neither is above the other, that’s what matters. Until that is understood you will not see the broader picture.

“Reason obeys itself; Ignorance submits to what is dictated to it.” Thomas Paine