Under previous circumstances it would be true that you are the one who decides what you buy. In the specific case of health insurance,that is no longer true.
The health care law requires everyone to purchase insurance. Every citizen is required by law to purchase insurance whether they want it or not. You have no choice in the matter. If you don’t you will be fined. (there might be special situation for medicare eligible)
That new mandatory requirement on citizens raises the question, can a government that forces citizens to purchase insurance force the citizen to purchase other things or services on pain of fine or penalty?
The right you claim has been taken away. You might not want a chrome plated garbage collection container but there will be one in your driveway and the government will come collect the payment and if you don’t pay, they will assess a penalty or a fine.
Obamacare sets ‘minimum standards of health insurance’ and does not require anyone to purchase anything. They will use the ‘tax argument’ as FDR did in defending Social Security.
It boils down to this:
“You don’t meet our minimum standard of health insurance coverage? Fine, you won’t get the tax credit for the tax we are going to impose on you just because.”
For insight into a way out of this mess, see the links in post #19.
Well bert, that may be true for those who decide to go along to get along allowing the encroachment of ever more of our freedoms. I have other plans.
I will NOT purchase mandatory health insurance.
I will NOT pay a fine.
They will NOT take me to jail alive.
"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." --- Marbury ~vs~ Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803
"An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed." --- Norton ~vs~ Shelby County, 118 US 425 p. 442.
"The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment, not merely from the date of the decision branding it. "No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it." --- 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177, late 2d, Sec 256.