Why do some object to a health insurance mandate when we already pay Social Security and Medicare which have?

[skii_tyme]

It's the last gasp of those who cling to the concept that free markets will take care of themselves. It clearly is not the case with the health insurance industry whose costs are skyrocketing and putting a huge burden on the middle and lower classes. Reality is a hard pill to swallow for some.

[YOUNGJDW]

Its only because President Obama is the one proposing it...;.if the Republican Deity Ronald Reagan passed the Affordable Care act, the rightwingers would all be wetting themselves calling it the greatest plan ever

[Militant Lone Wolf]

The Government Programs we have are terrible