What other contracts can the federal government coerce us into entering merely because we are alive?
Your comment hits home on the two biggest problems I have with this whole “it’s just like car insurance” argument.
First, the federal government doesn’t require you to have car insurance, the states do (and a state could, theoretically, choose NOT to have such a requirement, I believe).
Second, not everyone (or “just about everyone”) has to get car insurance (as the One keeps repeating), only those people who own (and register) their cars. It’s a big stretch to use as a comparison with being required to own health insurance because we each have a body!
What happened to “choice”? And “I should be free to do what I want with my body”? (As so often professed by abortion advocates.) Where’s the outrage now? (crickets)