So the people already paying for their own health-care coverage can pay for the people who don't?!!! What makes anyone think that is a good idea?! Don't we (TAXPAYERS) provide enough 'hand up/hand out' now?! If they haven't figured out how to survive without someone else footing their bills they never will!
That's just the first step:
Next will come the realization, by your dear elected officials, that the system is going broke, so the privately insured will be required to enroll in the public system.
Then when the "health insurance" system is STILL bankrupt, there will be rationing of services, and Mainers will be reduced to leaving the state for medical attention, while Maine doctors will just leave.
Or maybe I was thinking of Canada...