For $20k/year or even $2500/year, I can buy a lot of medical care and services along with an inexpensive catastropic plan of my own choosing. Forget Obamacare.
The liberals keep bringing up that almost all states require you to have car insurance, and that requiring health insurance is the same thing.
Perhaps the big difference is that theoretically you can avoid the car insurance mandate by living in a place where you don’t need a car. But you can’t escape the health insurance mandate.
And also, car insurance is handled under state laws, not administered from Washington, DC, as Obamacare is.
Liberals must think that government can and should do everything to solve every conceivable problem. From health insurance to people grappling with poverty to global warming, the federal government is the vehicle to solve all problems. (sarcasm)