Your math is very off.
There are ~300 million people in the country. If even only 1/2 are citizens (way low), $700 million divided up leaves a few bucks a piece.
Now some actual useful math, you can take the aggregate cost of Obamacare and divide it up by the claimed number of uninsured people, you could easily buy them a policy on the order of $20k per year which is a very nice plan. You would also not have to screw up everything else.
But then again the point wasn’t for this to succeed. Only a moron could imagine that this plan could have succeeded. While I understand Obama is a corrupt moron, there are plenty of other people in the loop who knew this would nosedive, and push us to single payer.
Oy. I see what you are saying, it’s been a long day. I don’t know what I was thinking, yes 300 million X 2 dollars = $600 million. Yes my suspicion is this scam is an attempt to bring communism in through the backdoor, for example the “fines” they classify it as a tax - they slowly raise the rates high enough were the middle class can’t afford it - as if they can afford it now anyway - and then come the fines which undoubtedly are going to rise, then they trash the law that says the IRS can only collect those fines through refunds and you get people owing tens of thousands in fines and in comes the IRS with their liens, seizures and *poof* you have redistribution, collectivism, slavery to the state for doing absolutely nothing other than existing.