¶ … Healthcare There are a number of different moments, some quiet and others rather loud and obnoxious, that the thought has seeped from my mind and spouted from my lips: "Why should I be forced into healthcare?" The simple answer, of course, is that one of the mandates of the Patient and Affordable Care Act requires individuals to obtain healthcare or to pay an ever increasing portion of their income as a fee for not having healthcare. Thus, one is left with one of two options -- to either pay for a service, no matter how dubiously and questionably rendered, or to pay to not have a service. The latter, of course, is commensurate to paying for nothing: simply throwing away money to the wind.

Still, the question persists regardless of which of the aforementioned options I choose, why should I be forced into healthcare? There are certainly few other services (outside of the Internal Revenue Service) that one is forced into in the United States, and the IRS is only forced upon individuals who readily acknowledge the curse of earning money and want to pay the country for the privilege of such a curse. Moreover, there is an ever increasing number of homeless individuals who are realizing this fact and are content to not get forced into the IRS's machinations as well. But one is not forced into automotive services and, it has been quite some time since the draft was forced and one was forced into the armed services....

This latter point is actually quite significant, since the country has been at war for the better part of this millennium. Yet evidently, the alleged War on Terror is not as important as the purported War on Americans who must conscript into some sort of healthcare program or quite literally pay the consequences (for not doing so).
Thus, it has been established that Americans are not obligated to do virtually anything in this country other than pay their taxes or die. Now enrolling in healthcare has been added to this list. Quite simply, I should not be forced to enroll in healthcare, and I should not have to pay any sort of remuneration for failing to do so any more than I should have to spend money for not going to the movies, ordering cable, or eating at vegetarian restaurants. My body is mine alone, and I should have the right to do with it whatsoever I please. Healthcare enrollment should not infringe on that right, any more than spending money to not have healthcare should infringe on that right.

One of the things that most Americans value more than just about anything else is their freedom and civil liberties. One can argue that forcing people to enroll in healthcare is actually taking away their rights to civil liberties. The current health care…