"Tom Veatch" wrote:

I don't believe congress is talking about forcing you or me to buy
fire insurance on pain of confiscatory fines. (local fire
departments
don't equate to fire insurance, by the way)

More IBS (Intellectual Bull ****).

1) What is being proposed is that everyone must purchase health
insurance.

2) If you can not afford to buy health insurance, tax rebates,
incentives, etc will be provided to help offset the cost of health
insurance.

Lew