[citizenK]

give up health care entirely and pay the penalties,

Sure, it's the smart thing to do financially.

AND...it's in keeping with the spirit of the law.
Seems the affordable health care act was meant to force people into the hands of the government by design. The idea is to hasten the transition to a single payer system. If the movement toward unbounded socialism comes at the price of religious freedom, all the better in the mind of the committed leftist.

[Gen.Blather]

“Seems the affordable health care act was meant to force people into the hands of the government by design. The idea is to hasten the transition to a single payer system. If the movement toward unbounded socialism comes at the price of religious freedom, all the better in the mind of the committed leftist.”

Actually, I suspect it’s much more likely that people thus affected will vote conservative from now on.