The plan is as an "individual mandate" plan that requires you to have health insurance comparable to a requirement to have auto insurance.
The devil is in the detail and I really dont know the enforcement mechanism. I do know it provides many options for individuals to select the plan that best suits their needs.
Of course its more complex than I implied, but its equally simplistic to characterization it as "socialized medicine" as others (not you) have suggested.
And now I am done here too.
