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To: Paul Smith who wrote (152207)	12/13/2010 4:01:48 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 541671

These are all distinctions without a difference. The state is forcing you to do something. For instance, a car is a necessity in most parts of the country (only long time big city residents can get by without one). So that necessity means you have to buy car insurance. You can't live without a job. Social security is not a choice for an employee. One could easily do as K suggests and consider the individual mandate a different form of taxation. That's a bit of stretch to me. Another way to do it is to look at payments to private health insurance companies as a substitute for tax payments to the federal government for single payer insurance. Same functionality; just paid to private companies, regulated by the state.

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