The problem with the mandate is that the cost and penalty only applies to middle class working people and up.
No. The Individual Mandate also says that the Federal Government to check everybody's bank accounts to see if you are co-operating with the mandate. To that end thousands of IRS agents were hired to look at your bank transactions to see if you have purchased health insurance.
Next they will be asking if it is insurance up to the Federal Governments standards. And the answer to that for the majority of us will be No.
Currently that standard seems to include Free Contraception, the coverage of abortion and sterilizations.
You do realize that your health coverage is in the hands of Kathleen Sebelius under the ACA Mandate? And that she can rule whether you get treatments or not and rule what will be covered and what will not be?
The Despots are here and ruling already.