[thecavemaster]

Ah, but there is a huge difference. They cannot even remotely be compared to one another. The key word here is "privilege". All things that you just mentioned are elective situations/ activities that we have the "privilege" of participating in. When you get your driver's license it plainly states in the study manual that driving a car is a privilege and not a right. I'm correct on that, aren't I? No one in this country is forced to own/drive a car, fish for bass, or to kill a deer.

This bill plainly states that you must buy a product or service from a "private sector firm" for the only reason being that you have been born. That is neither "right" nor IMO, "constitutional". I guess we'll find out about the constitutional part as I suspect it's legality will be challenged by several states, from what I am understanding.

If a person rolls the dice, reasons I'm young, I'm careful etc. etc. and chooses to have no health insurance, does society, then, have an obligation to bail them out on that choice when often expensive emergency care is needed? If an adult refuses to carry medical insurance (for whatever reason) even though it is made affordable to them, how, then, is society to respond when that same person gets injured or ill?