it is backdoor socialism (as some conservative groups has stated) ...
but, I’ll guess you’ll quote the Heritage Foundation ... however, didn’t Romney buy them off?
The backdoor socialism is from the state using taxpayer funds to pay for insurance for the indigent. They already to that in every state - it’s called S-CHIP. Remember that one ?
Requiring taxpayers to buy private health insurance is not socialism. I’d probably call it fascism instead.
The only alternative to mandating insurance coverage is to repeal the 1986 law, signed by Ronald Reagan, that forces emergency services to be given regardless of ability to pay.