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"The Massachusetts plan subsidizes personal responsibility."

This is about the third time you made this statement. For clarification can you explain to me how government provided health insurance subsidizes personal responsibility? If the individual does not earn something, they don't take responsibility for it. Instead they abuse it.

First, there is no such thing as government provided anything, let alone insurance. It is provided by you and me in the form of higher taxes, but mostly for the insured, higher premiums because the cost of every treatment must reflect the losses of those that aren't covered of those who are uninsured.

The plan causes those who seek treatment to show an insurance card (based on what I know of the plan that has been discussed over the years as the plan is and has been worked on for several years) and if they can't, they are counseled and based on their income they are offered to or ordered to if they don't agree to buy insurance. They will be assessed a tax to pay for it or they can go and buy it privately. This system will force the mid-income deadbeats to assume responsibility for their actions. The government is subsidizing responsibility through a good kick in the pants.

You might ask, why do I not talk about the very poor? Well, as in most states, there are already insurance plans to deal with that. The Mass. plan is an method to engage those who have resources to pay to do so. So what is wrong with that?