I'm actually going to thank you for add a bit more substance to your post even though it still is somewhat filled with talking points and empty rhetoric. I don't care if you think the Washington post is shyt or the MSM is shyt. I care if you can actually on merits and facts defend your position instead of parroting empty talking points.
The mandate was essentially a tax. The Supreme Court upheld this fact. However here is where we both agree. Ideally, we shouldn't be subsidizing private industry and I wish private insurance was dead and healthcare became a public good. But if you're going to throw around words like tyranny and "gun to my head" then you better feel the same way about subsidizing farmers, airlines, oil companies,etc etc for consistency.
But again I see nothing in your post or in the republican bill that offers a viable alternative or fix to this. Your care about rising costs and protections being secondary is what most people suspect of conservative even as they rage about them in public. They don't care that this happen despite what their campaign ads and rhetoric says. Glad you're honest. To me your belief is like a religious adherence to some abstraction of "freedom" and it seems less sincere if you're not applying this across the board.
Anyways unless you're against taxation and subsidies in all forms, then your "freedom" argument rings hollow. I didn't have the freedom for my taxes to go towards a single airplane that maybe cost 20 billions dollars for the military but here we are.
Still waiting for
@Uncle Hotep to come in and express an original thought on his own on the matter and provide a solution too.
You're forced to buy car insurance though.
