text: The government is still mandating that you have a plan that you may never need (as per your post)....which is the basis or your entire argument against ACA.  Plus, folks like yourself are always telling the rest of us how allowing the government to control one aspect of health care will be a slippery slope to socialized medicine and social engineering.  Plus, you're making the assumption that the cost of a mandated catastrophic plan would stay manageable.  
  
  You bellyached about freedom, and now you're here telling us that you have no problem with the government mandating a certain part of health care.  You have never once, in all of our back-and-forths, said that you favor a government-mandated catastrophic plan for all until today, when you were caught in a bind.
  
  You need to make up your mind.