Problem is, the Left has figured out that rather than compelling you to do something, it’s easier & more effective to compel a more willing party to make your life very difficult unless you comply.
Sorta like the classic RKBA cry of “FMCDH!” Ok, fine, keep your guns - retailers and manufacturers will be driven out of business, leaving you with no way to repair or resupply. Likewise health insurance: they’ll just tweak things so that sure you don’t have to buy it, but no provider will want to deal with you unless you do.
You are right, but there are possible unintended consequences.
An increase in amateur, DIY gunsmithing (from observing metalsmiths in action,it is not that difficult);a subsequent increase in interest in reloading. For those lacking ability or proper spaces, they simply become customers of private smiths/reloaders.
I have noticed that in the UK, people who are sentenced to death by NHS policy on drugs or treatment, can and do sue and can and do win. The same would happen here, if enough people are told FOAD. Those with income or assets would go the medical tourism route. The folks w/o assets would still have access through state provided coverage.
I have wondered how many small town/rural retired MDs would open private clinics.
I do not think that once the results of either policy become manifest, people would sit idly by and allow themselves to be disenfranchised or face death. It isn’t human nature.