[Urbane Guerrilla]

For starters, you show me where in the Constitution you're going to find authority for Congress to tell the citizenry where they are going to spend their moneys. And if you reply "Commerce Clause," I'm going to say, "Oh really?"

See, your overriding assumption is that Government intrusion on any and every level is invariably good. What possessed you to try and tell that to a libertarian? To quote the present Speaker of the House, "Are you serious?" And if you think you're serious, why?

Is the problem any other than that the medical-insurance market has been impaired and gone expensive precisely because of government mandate? Even as mildly centrist a libertarian as myself (about minus one and change towards the libertarian end of the Political Compass' axis) would say you're not thinking libertarianly enough. As far as you're concerned, the political creation of a dependent class of Americans is a fine thing -- along with every other doctrinaire lefty Democrat. I can't see the fineness in being kept in a subadult condition. It's suboptimal psychologically, and deprives America of her economic engine.