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It in no way attempts to get everyone to pay their share. It is designed so that those who cannot afford insurance don't pay for health care at all and their premiums are paid for by all the rest of us who do pay our bills.

At least in the present system an attempt is made to make people pay their own bills (an attempt which succeeds more than it fails) and the cost they place on the system is only incurred when they declare bankruptcy.

btw, those who chose not to buy insurance do not have any obligation to pay their share of a product that they did not buy. They do have an obligation to pay for their share of health care. You are confusing health care with health insurance.

This is an important distinction. One goal of obamacare is to get as many people buying insurance as possible regardless of what happens with their health care. For as much as you complain about the complicity between private enterprise and the state don't you see that that is what this is? In the short term this benefits insurance companies which is why they supported the bill.