Originally Posted by robot_parade

That is a drawback, one could argue that the penalty should be higher. But, consider - you're a 22 year old healthy male, who just got wheeled into the ER with acute appendicitis. It's too late to sign up for health insurance, and that hefty hospital bill just might teach you a lesson about rolling the dice.

Otoh, if it's lung cancer, then sure, you can still get insurance, even though any idiot can guess that your going to be a financial liability for the insurance company. And I, who plan to live a long life and have health and wealth and all that, will be the one subsidizing that guy. Personally, I'd rather live in a world where I have to pay a few hundred dollars more a year and lung-cancer-man gets proper care than the world where I have those hundred dollars and lung-cancer-man almost certainly dies in agony.

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Without all those things, you have nothing but anarchy, which is useless other than as an intellectual exercise.

Would you do without the armed forces? Police? If you want to do away with taxes (sorry, "legal plunder"), you have to do away with those, as well as a whole raft of other things you probably enjoy.