[needmorePaine]

Actually, it is like a mafia family. I’ve tried to warn people here about being careful about who they let do favors for them. Take favors from the mob and you get the trouble you ask for. Same thing goes with letting fedgov do favors for you. Don’t take the benefits if you don’t want strings to get attached later.

"Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day." -Don Corleone

Actually, isn't the individual mandate an offer we can't refuse?

[Orangedog]

Actually, isn't the individual mandate an offer we can't refuse?

Not really. That part was the big, sloppy wet kiss to the insurance industry that they were all too happy to have in whatever bill was passed. They just got mad when team red stuck a knife in their back with forcing them to cover pre existing conditions. Those two groups of crooks were made for each other.