[BillyB]

As an avid, "anti" of tobacco use, I'm not so sure that I dont disagree with that.


But that is not the issue. It is whether it is constitutional for the federal government to force anyone to have buy a good or service in this country.

It's an additional income tax if you don't carry health ins coverage. If you choose not to, you will drive up the costs on the rest of us and I don't want to pay for an irresponsible decision to decline health ins. Those refusing health insurance drive up the costs of everyone else because:

* If you can't pay your health care expenses the rest of us will pay them through increased taxes or higher costs with the provider that has to eat the loss.
* The more in the underwriting pool the lower the cost for the rest of us.
* The individual mandate on the insurers to keep the cost of health ins down or risk a political backlash that would bring regulation and price control of their product.