That, and health insurance/coverage is not healthcare. Even if you are strong-armed into it, how would you pay the copays?
The problems with health insurance as a solution are manifold. Though the biggest one is that it does nothing about the shortage of physicians. The best way to resolve the issue of medical care being expensive is not to force people to have insurance (which doesn't actually do anything more than encourage those that are forced to have it, and can afford it to go to the doctor more often stretching limited resources further) but to train more doctors.
The government, per usual, is showing that it will do something that sounds "good" with out actually resolving the issue. They are going to force you to get health insurance (because those crooked insurance companies (
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/bu...l?ref=business) paid them (both Democrats and Republicans) millions in return for a promise to do this.)
The real solution is more doctors, and more competition, or letting the free market do what it does best, create alternatives. We can look at the establishment of clinics inside Walmart's and other providers searching for ways to provide care outside of hospitals (thus reducing costs) lowering costs. The free market sees the demand, and are trying to get around the bureaucratic red tape to fill it. Doctors, in general, just want to practice medicine, it is what they chose to do. For D.C. to increasingly add onerous restrictions and requirements does not resolve anything. except increasing the cost which once again screws over the poor and working classes.
While the free market does not have solutions to everything, it doesn't use legislative force for the benefit of private corporations (and their CEOs.)