“Do we really need to have fines and threats in order to force us to use care,”
Probably.
I know two families that are targets for obamacare. One does not want gov involved in health care at all because he does not want anything forced on him. Through personal decisions he does not have health care for him or his family and does not want to be forced to buy insurance. He just takes his chances when something comes up.
The other, the woman is mucho pro obama and thinks he is the savior. She has not read the fine print though so does not realize she will be required to do anything, it will just be free for her and her family. She may be right cause she barely has a pot to pi$$ in but the bill sounded to me like all will pay. For either of these two, they will have to be forced into the new system.
No, the fines and threats are to force you to PAY for insurance. Using it is a completely different manner. They need to do this because there are those of us who might decide to drop our "employer paid" plans when they start taxing them as income, and they really want that tax money.
Slavery to the medical industry. Everyone must be absorbed. Never mind the crashing incompetence of far too many doctors.
The controlled market, just as under FDR in 1930s here, and in fascist Italy and Germany.