[o_zarkman44]

If I go to jail for not purchasing health insurance, I will get free medical care, a cot and 3 squares a day.
How can that be considered a penalty if I am not a free man on the outside?

[alloysteel]

‘How can that be considered a penalty if I am not a free man on the outside?’

Now this is the kind of thinking we need. When all the world is a prison, then you are at least as free within the prison as you are outside. “Freedom” or “captivity” exist first in the mind, and one or the other engages your soul. In your head, you may always be free, if you so choose.

The truly free man cannot be punished. Not by fines, not by prison, not even by death. Just keep your eye on the prize.

[itsahoot]

If I go to jail for not purchasing health insurance, I will get free medical care, a cot and 3 squares a day. How can that be considered a penalty if I am not a free man on the outside?

Unfortunately they have many Kevorkians available to provide that free medical care, and us old people cost too much money.