Fix him with whose money? If the medical profession has to front the cost of care and absorb the cost of pursuing the guy for payment and absorbing the inevitable loss when he either files for bankruptcy or dies, the rest of us pay for the cost of that. Individual responsibility is a great theory, but the reality is that there are large numbers of non-responsible people in the world, and they have the ability to cost YOU money. Mandates address that problem by requiring those non-responsible people to behave responsibly. The only alternatives are to either:
a.) Force the rest of us to assume the cost of their care.
or
b.) Let ‘em die if they refuse to carry insurance and can’t come up with the cash for care.
Given that, I’ll adjust to the ‘freedom limitations’ associated with a mandate in the same way I’ve adjusted to those traffic lights that limit my freedom to drive through an intersection when I want to. And I’ll make the adjustment for much the same reason.