[TheLion]

It wasn’t socialized health care in Mass. It was private health insurance. Do you consider auto insurance as socialized?

[teenyelliott]

It is up to the Mass. govt to decide how much you can afford as to premiums, if you fall under a certain income level your premiums are subsidized by other taxpayers, and if you do not get insurance you are penalized on your taxes.

Also, as an employer, if you do not offer insurance to your employees you are penalized a certain dollar amount per employee.

So, the government tells me what I can afford, I have to pay for people who can't/won't pay for it, and if I don't do what they say, I have to pay more in taxes, which have absolutely nothing to do with health care.

How would you describe it?