Mandatory 'for-profit' service stinks of corruption. When a group of companies tells the government: Sure we'll allow you to pass that law, as long as you force everyone to pay us...That's corruption! If the Democratic party pushes this on us, they will fall faster and harder than the Republicans just did.

The premise for this mandate is to help lower costs by getting everyone into the pool. That is understandable, but what makes more sense is to also cut the for-profit part completely out of the picture and cover the costs with our tax dollars. Of course our taxes will go up, but I'll guarantee it won't be as much as we are paying for insurance right now. There is absolutely no doubt what so ever that removing the profit will cut costs. I have heard people reject a government run system on the premise that it would limit our choices, but in fact, it would remove current limitations. People need to remember that this is our government and we do get a say, but more importantly, the insurance companies are not, we don't. Under the current system, your insurance provider can tell you what hospital you can or can not go to. Under a government program you could go to any hospital you like. Other countries have systems like this, some are better than others, but as an American, I'm betting ours would beat them all. Let's stop wasting our health care dollars on some CEO's private jet, and show the world what a single payer government run system should look like. We're Americans after all, let's start acting like it. These companies are trying to take advantage of us and corrupt our system, I think the American thing to do would be, stick it to 'em with overwhelming force.