No insurance? You will be a criminal.

Cannonfire says "game over" on health care reform as the Baucus plan - the one most likely to pass - contains a provision that forces you and me to purchase heath insurance. The fines for refusing? 750 to 3800 dollars. Per year? One wonders.

Cannonfire also asks whether if it is even constitutional to coerce people into purchasing insurance.

The bill mostly likely to pass is an obscenity. Bad Max Baucus' health care plan is, best as I can tell, an attempt to turn the middle class into serfs to the health care industry. This is the first line from Marcy Wheeler's blog. Cannonfire's post will get you to all the pertinent opinions from the Left on this crock of steaming s**t.

Again , the pattern need to be pointed out.

-Everything is a crisis.
-In all crises the function of the federal government is to transfer wealth from the middle class to certain fixed elites.
- The Federal Government is in the hip pocket of large corporations and Wall Street.

The health care "reform" fits this pattern.

Iraq
Swine Flu
Banking collapse
Auto collapse
Airline bailouts
Heath care

In all cases a "crisis" has been used to legalize a massive transfer of wealth.